The price of your favorite fast food is about to become a giant guessing game

Tech Insider : Economy
Wendy with quarters for eyes
Wendy's is going to start experimenting with surge pricing — and people are really mad about it.

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It's weird to think about walking into a fast-food restaurant without knowing how much your burger and fries combo will cost you. It may also be the future.

Gen Z is living with their parents to save money. But it's going to cost them, big time.

Tech Insider : Economy
A young woman standing in front of a house
Like millennials, Gen Z is living with their parents well into their 20s. But in the long run, it may not be a good idea.

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It's just a little wood and glass. So why is getting stuff framed so expensive?

Tech Insider : Economy
A $100 in frames
Getting stuff framed is a confounding and expensive endeavor. Does it really have to be like this?

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At the start of the year, I decided that I would become America's bravest woman. I would frame some art on my own.

An incredible new map could help bring down America's sky-high home prices

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
Houses rising out of a map

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Sorry, parents: The American dream is only for DINKS

Tech Insider : Economy
A house and a pacifier icon cut out of a quarter
This year, homebuyers with children are likely to spend 66% of their income on mortgage and childcare expenses, Zillow found.

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Get used to it: America's winters will be a lot less snowy from now on

Tech Insider : Sports, Economy
Outside a window, a child tries to muster up enough snow for a snowman but can't quite. Inside, a photo frame with the same child next to a giant snowman in a snowy version of the same landscape.
Last December was the warmest on record for much of the Midwest. It's the beginning of a new normal.

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2 major employers said they stopped paying for weight-loss drugs like Wegovy after the drugmaker threatened to penalize them

Tech Insider
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Taylor Swift's gameday outfits are a touchdown for fashion brands

Tech Insider
Taylor Swift

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Swifties are in their shopping era.

Why America loves the NFL

Tech Insider : Sports, Sports
A bald eagle holding a football
The NFL holds a unique space in Americans' hearts and minds, even as the media landscape has fractured into smaller and smaller niches.

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From hiking in the Alps to snorkeling in Hawaii, it's never been a better time to be a DINK

Tech Insider : Economy
A couple drinks wine while a couple with kids walks past
More and more Americans see being a DINK as the key to a new American dream of financial stability, freedom of choice, and a comfortable retirement.

Andrea Chronopoulos for BI

Elizabeth Johnson and her husband hit the vacation circuit hard in 2023.

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