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The robotaxi takeover — assuming they take over — will also be a real estate story.As Waymo, Uber, Tesla, and other competitors race to flood the streets with fully autonomous cars, robotaxi operators will need to find places to park, charge, and maintain their vehicles.Voltera, a charging infrastructure company based in Palo Alto that has partnered with Alphabet-backed Waymo, is buying up real estate now to prep for the AV boom.”We need to get shovel-ready assets in the ground,” Brett Hauser, CEO of Voltera, told Business Insider in an interview. “You need to buy property in advance of customers.”The hard…

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President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to impose 100% tariffs on all Canadian goods and products exported to the US should Ottawa make a trade deal with China.In a post on Truth Social, Trump warned Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, whom he called “Governor Carney,” against making a “drop off” deal with Beijing or face the levies.”If Governor Carney thinks he is going to make Canada a ‘Drop Off Port’ for China to send goods and products into the United States, he is sorely mistaken,” Trump wrote.”China will eat Canada alive, completely devour it, including the destruction of their businesses,…

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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Katarina Polonska, a relationship scientist and coach who will be inheriting her childhood home in Slovakia. Vancouver-based Polonska, 36, said the home needs a lot of work, and it may not be worth managing renovations from abroad. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.I’m going to be inheriting my childhood home where I was born. I love it, and it’s very precious to me. But I don’t have any right to it yet.It’s mostly used as a family holiday home, but ultimately when my mother passes, it’s going to…

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Citi has largely put the dog days of its multiyear transformation behind it, and CEO Jane Fraser signaled a shift from remediation to competition. The next step is cultural.In a memo to employees last week, Fraser told Citi’s more than 200,000 workers that “the bar is raised” and that it was time to ditch bad habits.When Fraser took over as Citi’s chief executive in 2021, the bank was under intense scrutiny — bogged down by regulatory pressure, dated and weak technology, and investor doubts about whether it could still compete with Wall Street’s most established names.Five years in, the stock…

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For a growing number of Americans on social media, bankruptcy isn’t a scarlet letter — it’s a way to shed crushing debt and reset financially.On TikTok, a wave of recent videos under the “bankruptcy” hashtag shows young people framing their personal bankruptcy filings as life-changing wins, drawing hundreds of thousands of views.In clips viewed by Business Insider, individuals touted their bankruptcy filings as the “greatest” and “best” decision they’ve ever made, saying it allowed them to wipe out massive amounts of debt — sometimes tens of thousands of dollars — in just a few months.This celebratory sentiment comes as personal…

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2026-01-24T11:38:01.231Z 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. Beyond my algorithmI was sitting inside Estiatorio Milos in Hudson Yards at a table convened by ColorComm founder Lauren Wesley Wilson, who was hosting a conversation with media executives last December.Her closing question has stuck with me since: What’s one piece of often unspoken advice that’s truly helped in…

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Trump signed the “One Big Beautiful Bill” into law on July 4, implementing new tax policies and changes to federal programs, including SNAP.The bill also introduced so-called Trump Accounts, which are specialized retirement accounts for US children. They were previously referred to as “money account for growth and advancement,” or MAGA accounts.The Trump administration said children born between January 1, 2025, and December 31, 2028, who open Trump Accounts, would receive a one-time $1,000 tax-free federal grant. US children with a valid Social Security number are eligible. Friends, family, and others are allowed to deposit another $5,000 tax-free into those…

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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Dray Jankowski, former employee at CrowdStrike and current senior director of product operations and program management at Wunderkind. Business Insider verified his identity. This essay has been edited for length and clarity.I still remember the morning I found out I was getting laid off from CrowdStrike.I went to bed thinking everything was fine, and when I woke up, there was a mysterious meeting on my calendar for later that afternoon.That’s when I saw the email that said the company was doing a reduction in force as it adjusted to changes driven…

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One of Costco’s biggest ways to save doesn’t involve setting foot inside a warehouse.The wholesale club has been selling gasoline since 1995, and many US warehouses now have pumps for members to top up. The company is even set to open its first-ever stand-alone gas station in California this year.The savings make gasoline one of the biggest ways shoppers say their annual membership fee basically pays for itself.Indeed, when Business Insider analyzed prices of other products that offset the membership fee, which starts at $65 a year, many readers reached out to say that gasoline gave them the most savings.Your…

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