Monthly Archives: September 2022

Appeal raises $135,000 for a released Ukrainian POW to help with medical expenses after his brutal treatment by Russian captors

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…

4 ways to help girls thrive online

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…

A Gen Z cashier making $13 an hour says she ‘acts her wage’ to protect her mental health: ‘This is not the sum total of your entire life. This is literally just a job.’

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…

Many millennials still go to the bank of mom and dad, but at age 60, I’m learning, slowly, to accept my daughter’s financial support

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,…

Goldman Sachs insiders are concerned about CEO David Solomon’s push to build his personal brand

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…

A 44-year-old mom of 3 made $735,000 last year from a reselling business she launched using just the clothes in her closet

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…

Meet a government worker who regrets refinancing her student debt because she didn’t know it would block her from federal loan forgiveness: ‘I never would have done that’

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…

Markets will get ‘Fed up’ with too much tightening if growth slows as Powell shows most resolve since Paul Volcker, BlackRock says

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…

A Russian crime boss was killed in Ukraine after being recruited from prison to fight in the war, report says

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 prices will head back toward $100 per barrel as a supply crunch returns to the energy market, JPMorgan says

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…