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Your electric bills may have shot up in recent months, and you might be tempted to blame your roommate, who never turns the lights off, or your old window air conditioner unit.It’s not because of your roommate. It’s not your window unit. It’s actually Big Tech’s fault.Customers of the biggest…
Some big banks in Russia are reportedly getting ready to ask for an emergency bailout if their finances don’t improve over the next year.Executives in at least three of the country’s big banks have considered the risk that they may need to ask Russia’s central bank for a bailout in…
Prices are expected to go up this year as many companies signal plans to raise them in response to President Donald Trump’s slew of tariffs.While firms raise prices for many reasons, some were blaming price hikes on tariffs long before Trump’s so-called “Liberation Day” on April 2, during which he…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Rick Woldenberg, CEO of Learning Resources, an educational toy company based in Illinois. He is petitioning the Supreme Court to hear his lawsuit against Trump’s tariffs. This essay has been edited for length and clarity.I was in the middle of a…
In 2021, Taylor and Tatum Barnes decided to leave New York City.The couple paid $160,000 for a one-bedroom fixer-upper in the small town of Pomfret, Vermont; their mortgage payment is half of what they spent on rent for a studio apartment in Brooklyn. They felt the property, which came with…
