Mykhailo Dianov before and after being in Russian captivity Defense of Ukraine More than $130,000 has been raised for a Ukrainian man who was held as a POW by Russian captors. Photos of Dianov show him severely emaciated and scarred after his time in prison. He has a scar on his elbow caused by rusty…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
Parents paying close attention to news headlines over the past year would be justifiably worried about the risks of letting their adolescent or teen girl spend too much time online. The intense scrutiny that began a year ago with explosive revelations about Meta‘s own internal research on female teen users has continued with government investigations…
Claire (not pictured) makes $13 an hour as a cashier. andresr/Getty Images Claire, a 22-year-old cashier, does the job she was hired to do — nothing more, nothing less. More people are embracing “acting their wage” by not doing work outside their job description. She said that Gen Z has a different approach to work…
Insider’s experts choose the best products and services to help make smart decisions with your money (here’s how). In some cases, we receive a commission from our our partners, however, our opinions are our own. Terms apply to offers listed on this page. The author, Mary Fairhurst Breen. Maggie Knaus After years working for nonprofits,…
Hi, I’m Matt Turner, the editor in chief of business at Insider. Welcome back to Insider Weekly, a roundup of some of our top stories. On the agenda today: Goldman Sachs insiders are concerned about CEO David Solomon’s push to build his personal brand.Wall Street’s biggest investors fear an economic nightmare is coming. They may…
Mona Mejia Mona Mejia, 44, was a stay-at-home mom when she began reselling on Poshmark in 2015. She earned $735,000 last year selling on social media livestreams and through brand partnerships. She’s confident others can have similar success as well, but it doesn’t happen overnight. Before 2015, Mona Mejia’s full-time job was taking care of…
Getty Images Tanya Burnett, a federal government worker, refinanced her student debt into private loans in 2016. She wasn’t aware at the time that doing so would block her from Biden’s recent federal loan forgiveness. While she’s happy for borrowers getting relief, she wishes public servants who refinanced could also experience it. Most student-loan borrowers…
Paul Volcker, former Fed Chair 1979 to 1987. Bettmann / Getty Images Slow growth and too much tightening from the Fed will frustrate markets and the economy, BlackRock says. “Still, we do think that markets, and consequently the economy, will become ‘Fed up’ with too much tightening,” according to a note. The current Fed’s campaign…
Smoke rises from Bakhmut, Donetsk region, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine on September 15, 2022. Juan Barreto/AFP via Getty Images The boss of a Russian crime gang was serving a 23-year jail term when he requested to fight in Ukraine. He went to the frontline by the shadowy Wagner Group, who had been recruiting…
Oil tanker unloads crude oil at a crude oil terminal in Zhoushan Thomson Reuters Brent oil prices could head back toward $100 a barrel as supply grows tighter in the coming months, JPMorgan said. Analysts expect oil demand to rebound by about 1.5 million a barrels in the last quarter of this year. Meanwhile, releases…