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A teenage podcaster is on a mission to gather wisdom and advice from financial titans and share it with younger generations.Amir Fischer, 15, a sophomore at Greenwich High School in Connecticut, launched “Generating Alpha” last year. He’s already interviewed more than 20 guests including Steve Cohen, Howard Marks, Alan Schwartz,…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Linda Zierolf, 80, who lives near Dayton, Ohio. She has worked at the same company since she was 18 and has no plans to retire. Zierolf, who is financially comfortable, said her company, while very different from a staffing and technology…
Secretly working multiple full-time remote jobs may sound like a nightmare — but Americans looking to make their financial dreams come true willingly hustle for it.Over the past two years, Business Insider has interviewed more than two dozen “overemployed” workers, many of whom work in tech roles. They tend to…
Illuminated by a large desk lamp, Fay Pacchioli, 93, crunches numbers in Excel under the watchful eyes of her dogs, immortalized in framed photos on her wall.It’s midnight in Easton, Pennsylvania, and she’s hours into her shift. It’s when she focuses the best, kept awake by the scent of spring…
30-year-old Irene Ham had just poured $62,250 of savings into inventory for her new Korean cosmetics brand when President Donald Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs were announced on April 2.The shipment had been ordered but hadn’t arrived yet. She said her heart sank when she heard the news.”When the tariffs hit,…
I first met Mark Cuban on a red carpet for a movie premiere I was covering as a young entertainment host. At the time, Mark was already a recognizable figure — not just for selling Broadcast.com to Yahoo during the dot-com boom, but as one of the faces of that…
