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First came the bets. Then came the bombs. Now comes the outrage.On Saturday, while many Americans were waking up to news of US and Israeli strikes on Iran, some were betting money on what would happen next — and expressing confusion and anger over what was happening on prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket.The market-surveillance software company Bubblemaps said Saturday morning it had identified several new cryptocurrency wallets connected to Polymarket that collectively made over $1.2 million related to strikes on Iran.JUST IN: 🇮🇷 🇺🇸 Six suspected insiders made $1.2M betting on a US strike on IranMost of these wallets:•…

2026-03-01T14:36:01.239Z Share Copy link Email Facebook WhatsApp X LinkedIn Bluesky Threads lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Before computers, refrigerators, and modern medicine, basic menial tasks required human labor. People once relied on jobs like ice cutters and knocker-ups in their daily lives. Some jobs, like leech collectors and the groom of the stool, are every bit as bizarre as they sound. The current labor market…

Costco’s culture of attention to detail is one of the wholesale club’s keys to success.That extends to the very top, with CEO Ron Vachris taking time out of his day to deal with what must be a warehouse-sized email inbox.”I do read my email and respond to the majority,” Vachris told me when I emailed him to ask if he personally checks his messages, as multiple viral screenshots suggest. He replied the same day I messaged him, at about 10:30 p.m. Pacific time.He also said he delegates some notes to other Costco team members.”I see a fair number of emails…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kimberly Jones, a 60-year-old native Floridian who moved to North Carolina in 2025. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.I was born and raised in Miami and spent my entire life living in South Florida. But last year, my husband and I moved to North Carolina, and it wasn’t an easy decision.Our reasons for moving were multifaceted. A major factor was affordability; the cost of living in Florida had gotten out of control. Prices increased for everything — homeowners’ and auto insurance, and even for everyday expenses like groceries…

Passion could be the best defense against AI taking your job, Bill Gurley says.”The people that are most at risk are the ones that are sitting idly in the job and don’t really have a why or a purpose for it,” the legendary venture capitalist said during the latest episode of the “On with Kara Swisher” podcast.”I think a lot of the people that go through that college conveyor belt, that are chasing a safe job, that end up working as a widget or a cog in an industry they may not love — I think they are ripe for…

A few years into her accounting career, Carolyn Yu began thinking seriously about financial independence.”I’d feel very stressed and tired,” Yu, who was working at a Big Four firm at the time, told Business Insider. “I thought, maybe someday I could have more freedom and not spend 24/7 working at a very demanding job.”She picked up “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” and started listening to the popular real estate podcast, BiggerPockets. One takeaway stood out: focus on buying assets that can grow in value.Yu, who’d been consistently investing in the stock market since college, felt compelled to make a move. In…

2026-03-01T10:49:01.221Z Share Copy link Email Facebook WhatsApp X LinkedIn Bluesky Threads lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. California billionaires, spooked by a proposed wealth tax, are hunting for real estate in Miami. Larry Page set off the “gold rush,” a local agent said. Sergey Brin and Mark Zuckerberg may follow. These are the neighborhoods where some of the world’s richest people are putting down roots. With…

Plenty of civic events take place in public school gyms. Few, if any, are advertised with the bravado of a Don King-like boxing promoter. The first of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s “Rental Ripoff Hearings,” held Thursday night at George Westinghouse High School in downtown Brooklyn, was one of those rare exceptions. The event, billed in bold, Rumble-in-the-Jungle-esque lettering as “New Yorkers vs. Bad Landlords,” drew hundreds of tenants — plus a media gaggle worthy of a marquee bout — to share their mounting frustrations with the junk fees, shoddy upkeep, and eye-watering rents that plague some of the…

Greg Abel paid tribute to Warren Buffett and reassured Berkshire Hathaway shareholders he wouldn’t do anything drastic as their new CEO in his first letter to them on Saturday.Buffett handed Berkshire’s reins to Abel at the start of this year, ending a six-decade run during which he transformed the failing textile mill into a sprawling conglomerate worth more than $1 trillion.The legendary investor oversaw a 6,100,000% return for Berkshire shareholders between 1965 and 2025, trouncing the S&P 500’s total return of 46,100% including dividends. His compounded annual gain of 19.7% was nearly double the index’s 10.5% figure over a 60-year…

When my husband got laid off last April, it couldn’t have come at a worse time.For one, I had lost my job the previous November and was still unemployed. I figured it was all OK because he still had a job. Our special needs daughter would still get therapy, we still had health coverage, and I could rest easy knowing we could live comfortably.Then, one day, he came upstairs and said the words I was not expecting: “I just got laid off.”We became a no-income household in the middle of an economy where inflation is at an all-time high. I…