Finance
At first, I was thrilled when one of my best friends from college invited me to be one of her bridesmaids.I was in my early 30s at the time, and two years prior, I’d experienced my first adult breakup. I ended a six-year relationship with a man I loved dearly…
As they raced to complete the blockbuster movie “It Ends With Us,” one editor told another that he was shaking his head over Blake Lively’s final-cut approval for her character’s sex scenes.”SMH,” editor Robb Sullivan told co-editor Oona Flaherty, according to a text chain unsealed Friday as part of Lively’s…
The world’s richest people are on the move — and they’re heading for safe havens with tax perks, top-tier schools, and investor-friendly policies.According to the Henley Private Wealth Migration Report 2025, roughly 142,000 millionaires are expected to relocate globally in 2025.The provisional net inflow figures are based on data and…
Target is continuing to invest in its tech workforce as it tries to recapture the success it saw a few years ago.EVP and operating chief Michael Fiddelke told investors in May that harnessing tech and AI would be critical to his work in the company’s newly formed office that aims…
When I tell people I’m an empty nester at 40, they look at me like I’ve just revealed some impossible math equation. How can someone my age already be done with active parenting when most of my peers are still knee-deep in diaper changes and preschool pickup lines?The answer is…
Mary Smith is considering bankruptcy.”I don’t have it,” Smith said, referring to the extra money she would need to afford the higher student-loan payments she’s facing in the coming year. “Everything we’ve done, we’ve done ourselves,” Smith said. “Nobody handed me anything. I didn’t grow up in a rich family.…
Critical Role’s chief creative officer and longtime game master, Matthew Mercer, is making a big change at the team’s nerdworld business.When the team’s fourth campaign kicks off on October 2, it won’t be Mercer sitting behind the game master’s screen. Instead, helming the campaign — a long-term staple of Critical…
Some years back, I overheard my then-toddler tell her dolls that she was sorry that she couldn’t talk because she was on a work call.It was something I had said to her more than once before, and my heart sank. That moment stopped me in my tracks and shifted my…
Meg Josephson grew up as a people-pleaser.Raised in a home she describes as volatile, she remembers monitoring her father’s reactions, desperately trying to smooth tensions over.”Being a perfectionist and being kind of always on was very protective for me,” Josephson told Business Insider. “It was the one thing in my…
Every year for the last 30 years, my mom and I have taken the same summer vacation. We stay in the same hotel, eat at the same pizza joint, and ski at the same waterskiing school. It’s like Groundhog Day, but repeating one warm, sunny weekend every August.This tradition began…
