Private Credit Firms Enter Consumer Debt as Risks Mount
📋 Key Facts ✓ Private credit firms are piling into consumer debt. ✓ Risk-taking is mounting in these financial activities. ...
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📋 Key Facts ✓ Private credit firms are piling into consumer debt. ✓ Risk-taking is mounting in these financial activities. ...
Crumpled up losing lottery tickets sit in a wastebasket at a liquor store in California. The Powerball jackpot has surpassed $1 billion. The next drawing is on Monday. Juliana Yamada/Los Angeles Times...
Attorney Alex Spiro wrote to California Gov. Gavin Newsom saying several of his clients would relocate if a billionaire tax were implemented. Ramsay de Give-Pool/Getty Images; Michael M. Santiago/Gett...
OpenAI lost at least 11 scientists and executives in 2025, including more than half a dozen researchers to Meta in the summer. REUTERS/Shelby Tauber/Pool OpenAI lost more than half a dozen researchers...
From left: Anthony Gutman, David Solomon, Jacqueline Arthur. Courtesy of Goldman Sachs 10 Goldman Sachs leaders shared their go-to book and podcast recommendations. Business Insider asked the CEO and ...
Tech leaders like Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk led a workforce efficiency crusade in 2025. Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images; Steve Granitz/FilmMagic The "efficiency" m...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Bitcoin may end 2026 with a negative return, breaking the four-year cycle due to market maturation. ✓ Both U.S. political...
Scribe cofounder and CEO Jennifer Smith. Scribe AI startup Scribe raised $75 million and achieved unicorn status. Scribe helps businesses standardize workflows and implement AI. Here's the pitch deck ...
Brian Niccol has spent his first year as CEO of Starbucks making a series of changes, big and small, to improve operations at the coffee giant. Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Fast Company Brian Ni...
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order that imposed a $100,000 fee on H-1B visas Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images Companies are revising their H-1B strategies after ...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Caroline Pham served as acting chair of the CFTC. ✓ Monday marked Caroline Pham's last day at the regulator. ...
The Gulfstream G700 is among the most luxurious jets in private aviation — an increasingly popular way for the ultrawealthy to travel. Taylor Rains/Business Insider Private jet travel is more po...
Investors trading commodities, such as oil, have been in high demand. Jeri Clausing/AP Hedge funds that trade commodities struggled in 2025. Big-name managers with exposure to energy or agriculture tr...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Trump Media acquired 451 Bitcoin for $40.3 million, bringing total holdings to 11,542 BTC worth over $1 billion. ✓ The co...
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Social Security tax rules will change in 2026. Getty Images; Tyler Le/BI Social Security tax rules will change in 2026 at the state and federal level. West Virginia will stop taxing Social Security be...
📋 Key Facts ✓ 60% of Five Below's products are sourced from China, impacted by tariffs. ✓ Company stock rose 85% year-to-date as of...
A girl reaches up to burst a large bubble on the Palace Plaza in Stuttgart, Germany, 19 October 2017. Photo: Marijan Murat/dpa (Photo by Marijan Murat/picture alliance via Getty Images) Marijan Murat/...
Jensen Huang, Jeff Bezos, and Mary Barra all started far from the top. Getty Images Many of the world's most powerful business leaders began their careers in more humble ways. From Jensen Huang workin...
Tiffany Chng and Olivia Yiong, the founders of Cheak, started off as work besties in a previous corporate job. Aditi Bharade Tiffany Chng and Olivia Yiong were work besties at GuavaPass, a company bou...