Corporate America got woke. Now it's having second thoughts.

Tech Insider : Economy
Businessman in suit gesturing 'shhh', with a background collage featuring action protests and the 'Woke' definition

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI

Uber, Doordash, and other gig workers in Seattle may be about to face a pay reckoning

Tech Insider : Economy
DoorDash driver on motor bike
Gig delivery workers in Seattle could get paid at a lower rate under proposed changes to the city's new pay law.

AP Photo/David Zalubowski

Many Americans have no idea how much they need to save for retirement — and the calculus is getting even more complicated

Tech Insider : Economy, Economy
Person paying or looking at bills

skynesher/Getty Images

The West is freaking out that China is making too much stuff, and it looks like China might be starting to agree

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics, Economy
Employees working on a production line.
A factory for lithium-battery products in Yichang, Hubei province, China.

Reuters/Stringer

An escalating cold war between US and China would be a blow to global growth, IMF official says

Tech Insider : Economy
US and Chinese flags

Pedro Pardo/AFP

Sam Altman doesn't think we are worried enough about how AI will impact the economy

Tech Insider : Economy
Sam Altman
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said during a Brookings Institute panel people aren't worried enough about AI's impact on the economy.

JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images

China is in the middle of its own retirement crisis as many older people cannot afford to stop working

Tech Insider : Economy
An elderly lady washing vegetables inside a tulou in Fujian, China.
Elderly lady washing vegetables inside a tulou in Fujian, China.

Sheng Li/Reuters

'Intellectual influencers' will soon be taking over your social-media feeds

Tech Insider : Economy
intellectual influencer
Intellectual influencers, or thought leaders, are the ones who will survive a social-media flux (stock image)

Tashi-Delek/Getty Images

Bankruptcies are spiking as companies lose hope of rate cuts

Tech Insider : Economy
Recession outlook, going out of business, economy
The US economy is showing resilience, but experts warn a recession is still on the table.

Robert Alexander / Getty

Businesses add $90 billion in surprise 'junk fees' each year, and it's starting to backfire

Tech Insider : Economy, Economy
A shopper looking at displayed food at a supermarket ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday in Chicago
A shopper looking at displayed food at a supermarket ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday in Chicago on November 22, 2022.

JIM VONDRUSKA/Reuters

Subscribe to Economy