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Ask me about the ZIP code 33480, and I’ll have plenty to say.It’s Palm Beach, a place I know well. I grew up in South Florida, and even now, I spend a good amount of time here, watching how the island continues to evolve. It also happens to overlap with my job: as a Wall Street reporter, many of the firms we cover — from Goldman Sachs to Citadel — have built out significant “Wall Street South” operations in and around Palm Beach County over the past few years.This winter, locals tell me the island feels especially busy — noticeably…

In his plush Upper East Side office earlier this year, Dr. Sachin Shridharani was at work on a patient’s breasts: applying a local anesthesia, making an incision, ensuring the final result sat just right.Through it all, his patient — an executive — had her AirPods in. She was on a conference call with a client, Shridharani told Business Insider. Less than two hours after she walked in, she popped up, checked out her new physique, and dashed off to her office.As recently as a year ago, a typical boob job would have involved general anesthesia and a multiday recovery.But Shridharani…

I’ve watched with dismay as tech industry executives have turned against middle managers, and more of them are losing their jobs.I began managing small teams in 2013, after almost three years as an individual contributor at Yahoo, then Facebook. By 2014, I was line-managing other managers at Facebook. In 2015, I moved to Airbnb and oversaw a research and insights team of over 100 people. By the time I left over eight years later in 2023, I was the head of Airbnb’s Design Studio, running a large UX team with multiple layers of management. I’ve since become a lecturer in…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Mark Penn, the 71-year-old CEO and Chairman of Stagwell, based in Miami Beach. It’s been edited for length and clarity.My career spans 40 years in market research, advertising, public relations, polling, and consulting.Before founding Stagwell, a global marketing and communications company, I served as an executive vice president and chief strategy officer at Microsoft.I’m also the cofounder and CEO of Penn Schoen Berland, a market research firm that I built and sold to WPP, a British multinational communications company. Valerie Plesch for BI For six years, I served as the White…

In a tough year for home sellers, the Midwest was a bright spot.Six of the 10 most popular markets for buyers this year were in the heartland, continuing a multi-year trend, according to a new analysis from Zillow.Rockford, Illinois — a city of about 150,000, 90 minutes northwest of Chicago — was the most popular place to buy a home in 2025, Zillow found. That’s after it was the second-most popular place for homebuyers in 2024. Midsize Midwestern cities dominated the charts: Dearborn, Michigan; Carmel and South Bend, Indiana; Toledo, Ohio; and Springfield, Illinois, also made the top 10.Zillow measured…

David Chatman, 51, is filing for bankruptcy.One reason? His monthly student loan payments are projected to jump from $86 to $689 now that President Donald Trump has moved to end the income-driven repayment plan Chatman was on.The SAVE plan, created under former President Joe Biden, was intended to provide borrowers with cheaper monthly payments and a shorter timeline to debt relief. In early December, President Donald Trump’s administration announced a proposed settlement to officially eliminate the plan.”I’ve never been behind on a credit card payment. I’ve never missed a student loan payment. But now it’s come to the point where…

2025-12-20T05:05:01.220Z 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. Skinny shoes, digital cameras, and clean-girl makeup reigned supreme in 2025. We doomscrolled on TikTok to see what the cool kids are spending their money on, going into 2026. TikTok’s top picks include the Rhode Pocket Blush, Alo’s Suit Up Trousers, and the Canon G7x Mark III. TLDR: Digital…

Tasha Huo and I don’t make it a minute into our conversation before we start gushing about wizards — and that’s how I know I’m talking to a true Critical Role fan.Huo is the showrunner of “The Mighty Nein,” Critical Role’s second animated series with Prime Video. “The Mighty Nein” follows the success of “The Legend of Vox Machina,” the series for which Critical Role raised over $11.3 million in Kickstarter seed funding in 2019. Now, Huo, a longtime viewer of the show, is the series’ creative writing powerhouse.Love Critical Role? Check out more of Cheryl Teh’s reporting on their…

New Epstein files released — Here’s the latestThe Justice Department has officially released documents on Jeffrey Epstein, the well-connected financier who killed himself in jail while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges in 2019.Friday’s disclosure is the first of what are expected to be several rounds of document releases over the coming weeks as the DOJ scrambles to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which President Donald Trump signed into law in November. The documents contain a trove of photos, some of which feature famous names such as former President Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and singer Diana Ross.While a past…

New Epstein files released — Here’s the latestThe Justice Department has officially released documents on Jeffrey Epstein, the well-connected financier who killed himself in jail while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges in 2019.Friday’s disclosure is the first of what are expected to be several rounds of document releases over the coming weeks as the DOJ scrambles to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which President Donald Trump signed into law in November. The documents contain a trove of photos, some of which feature famous names such as former President Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and singer Diana Ross.While a past…