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When Andy Hill first came across the FIRE movement through podcasts, it seemed to offer a solution to a major problem in his life.”I felt so passionate about leaving my corporate job. I was missing out on my kids growing up,” Hill, whose marketing career involved long days and travel, told Business Insider. “The solution that I had found was the FIRE movement.”The core principles of the financial independence, retire early movement — disciplined saving and consistent investing — aligned with his strengths. As a goal-oriented person, Hill said, he appreciated that FIRE offered a clear roadmap: save a majority…

For Cross Sierra, the path from college to career has included an accelerated MBA, a nationwide job search, and crashing on friends’ couches.The 23-year-old hopes to become a high school athletic director. So far, though, he’s only become frustrated by what feels like an impossible job market to break into.”What more do I have to do?” he asks.Economists and workplace observers say it’s a question many recent graduates are asking. Despite the usual advice about the importance of networking and conducting a targeted job search, the market for entry-level workers is tougher than it was a few years ago.Hiring has…

Peter Thiel appears to have found a new bug-out spot. He isn’t alone in looking beyond America’s shores.The PayPal and Palantir cofounder and prominent libertarian has been spending more time in Argentina, The New York Times reported, where he has enrolled his children in school and bought a home in one of Buenos Aires’ wealthiest neighborhoods.Among the ultrawealthy, that fits a larger pattern. The rich are treating their lives in America like part of an investment portfolio: still worth betting on, but increasingly in need of a hedge.”There’s a clear trend toward sovereign diversification,” Charlie Garcia, founder of centimillionaire membership…

Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP A federal judge has blocked President Trump from adding his name to the Kennedy Center, saying that the Washington, D.C. arts complex was named for the late president John F. Kennedy. In a ruling on Friday, the judge also temporarily blocked the administration from closing the Kennedy Center for a planned two-year renovation that was slated to begin in July. U.S. District Court Judge Christopher Cooper wrote in his ruling that: “The Kennedy Center’s organic statute makes crystal clear that the Center is to be named for President Kennedy, and it cannot bear any other formal name…

Hollywood has been struggling to compete with YouTube for years.Now it’s trying a new strategy: hiring YouTubers. The early results look promising.This weekend, “Backrooms,” a moody horror movie based on an internet meme, looks like it could bring in astonishing $60 million at the box office — which means it will likely beat out Disney’s new “Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu.” Director Kane Parsons has made stuff on YouTube for years, but this is his first film for theaters, which makes sense: He is 20 years old.That follows the success of “Obsession,” which has grossed $74 million in the…

People have vibe-coded apps for all sorts of tasks, from nutrition planning to babysitting gigs to grocery shopping. Soon, you may be able to vibe-code your home design.That’s the idea behind Drafted, a nine-month-old startup that uses AI to turn home-design ideas into floor plans and 3D layouts. Founded by Nick Donahue, Drafted has raised a $16 million seed round from investors including Buckley Ventures, Y Combinator, Pinterest cofounder Ben Silbermann, and OneRepublic front man Ryan Tedder. Donahue, the CEO, declined to share the company’s valuation.Instead of using expensive professional design software, users can enter details such as lot size,…

Stop me if you’ve heard this before: A politician wants to cut bureaucratic red tape and reduce spending in the name of efficiency.No, Elon Musk’s DOGE isn’t back from the dead. This time it’s NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and it’s called COGE: Commission on Government Efficiency.Despite the obvious similarities in their names, Mamdani insists COGE’s mission is different from the now-dormant DOGE. Instead of trying to “slash and burn so many of the city services that Americans rely on,” Mamdani said his agency will make sure “the government keeps pace with New Yorkers’ needs.”(In the spirit of efficiency, I’d avoid…

Thomas Fuller | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesReplimune plans to resubmit its melanoma drug to the Food and Drug Administration for review after a leadership exodus at the agency, the company said Friday. The FDA twice rejected Replimune’s melanoma treatment under the previous FDA leadership, including former Commissioner Marty Makary, who stepped down earlier this month. Replimune had accused the FDA of wrongfully blocking what some doctors see as a promising new way to treat the skin cancer, while the FDA had said Replimune ignored the agency’s guidance for conducting its clinical trials.The bitter fight became a flashpoint for what some…

Last May, I graduated from Smith College. Now I live in New York and work as a Project Manager at PDS Development, a Brooklyn-based real estate development and consulting firm. My experience with the job application process had nothing to do with LinkedIn, a perfect résumé, or most of the mainstream advice Gen Z has been given about landing a job.It had everything to do with human connection.I’ve loved all things real estate and design since I was 10 years old. I grew up around it — spreading garden mulch on Brooklyn investment properties for $15 an hour, shadowing agents…

Dan Loeb says the AI boom is a far cry from the dot-com bubble.The billionaire investor told the “Invest Like The Best” podcast that he’s unfazed by Big Tech companies spending hundreds of billions of dollars on microchips and data centers to power AI models.”If you don’t believe the capex numbers are going to yield a return, then you would have to believe that they’re just flushing money down the toilet,” Third Point’s founder and CEO said during an episode released Thursday.Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta have said they’ll invest upward of $700 billion combined this year, and $1 trillion…