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President Donald Trump’s new “Gold Card” visa program uses a novel definition of wealth as a job skill to allow the overseas wealthy to bypass immigration rules and secure citizenship, according to immigration attorneys.Trump last week announced the start of applications for the “Trump Gold Card,” a new investment visa for foreign nationals. In exchange for $1 million and a $15,000 processing fee, “Gold Card” applicants will get full-time residency in the U.S. in “record time,” according to the program’s website. The website also offers a “Corporate Gold Card,” allowing companies to pay $2 million to secure a “Gold Card”…

Visa group president Oliver Jenkyn told Business Insider he thinks about his schedule like a Mason jar filled with big rocks, small pebbles, and sand.In his analogy, the big rocks represent the complex problems that Visa needs to solve, such as rolling out a new global program. The pebbles are the less complicated tasks, he said, such as pricing approvals. The sand is the “small stuff,” like replying to emails, Jenkyn said.If you fill the Mason jar with sand first, there’s no space left for the big rocks, Jenkyn said. So if he has to take a B+ on anything,…

Imagine showing up to work at your high-powered Wall Street job and being asked to play Max Headroom, or execute the iconic lift from “Dirty Dancing?”Blackstone’s latest holiday video dropped on Thursday, celebrating the firm’s 40th anniversary with a slew of 80s references. Three of the Blackstone executives featured in the latest edition of the “cringeworthy” Wall Street tradition spoke to Business Insider about their experience.As Business Insider has previously reported, the process takes months, usually starting in the summer with a brainstorm between Blackstone President Jon Gray, head of external affairs Christine Anderson, and head of video Jay Gillespie.This…

If 2025 had a flavor, it was whatever came in a bowl.Americans this year spent their lunch breaks shoveling in salads, burritos, and grain bowls, according to new data from Uber for Business. Consider this roundup your Slop Bowl Wrapped — the definitive look at what workers actually ate between Zooms, commutes, and creeping existential dread.Residents from more than half of the US ordered healthy bowls and salads more than anything else, Uber found. In particular, diners loved lunches from Sweetgreen, which was the most-ordered-from spot in cities such as Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, and Washington, DC, as well as states including Colorado, North…

Throughout my career leading teams at Nordstrom, Verizon, and Yahoo, I’ve conducted hundreds of annual performance reviews. Some employees walked in composed, prepared, and ready to shape their career trajectory. Others arrived defensive, unfocused, or unclear about what the conversation was actually meant to accomplish.This year, in a market of layoffs and other financial pressures, those differences matter more than ever.Companies are operating with leaner teams, tighter budgets, and sharper expectations. Managers are being asked to do more with less, and employees are being evaluated not only on what they accomplish, but also on how well they adapt, collaborate, and…

It has been over six years since Steve Bannon filmed what he said were 15 hours of interviews with Jeffrey Epstein.Fewer than 30 seconds have seen the light of day.Though he possesses exclusive footage of the final weeks of the life of the well-connected pedophile — who remains one of the most potent political topics on the planet — Bannon has kept his footage under wraps.A cache of emails and text messages made public by the House Oversight Committee may help explain why: Epstein and Bannon discussed using an obscure legal maneuver that would technically make Bannon part of Epstein’s…

A protester holds a sign related to the release of the Jeffrey Epstein case files outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, on November 12, 2025. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images By law, the Justice Department has until Friday to release files related to the life and death of Jeffrey Epstein. Under the Epstein Files Transparency Act signed by President Trump last month, the attorney general is directed to “make publicly available in a searchable and downloadable format all unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative materials in the possession of the…

Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan, center, depicted in a court sketch as jury selection in her trial begins in Milwaukee, Wis. Adela Tesnow/Pool via AP hide caption toggle caption Adela Tesnow/Pool via AP MILWAUKEE — A federal jury found Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan guilty Thursday of obstructing immigration agents as they attempted to arrest an undocumented immigrant defendant last April.  Eduardo Flores-Ruiz was appearing in Dugan’s court on misdemeanor battery charges. Flores-Ruiz, a Mexican national, was arrested outside the courthouse after a short chase by the immigration agents and has since been deported. A grand jury indicted Dugan…

Get down with PPP; go Huskies; and other highlights of recent tax cases.Processing ContentYork, Pennsylvania: Tax preparer Dommonick T. Chatman, 50, has reportedly admitted that he helped push through bogus Paycheck Protection Program applications during the pandemic, retaining part of the money.Chatman, who pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud, oversaw The Chatman Group, where he either prepared or approved nearly 20 fraudulent PPP loan applications in 2021, news reports said, adding that in total applicants sought more than $400,000 and banks ultimately paid out some $341,438.Chatman reportedly admitted he knew many of the applications were bogus because he…

TikTok reached a deal with a group of investors to form a new joint venture for its US business, according to an internal memo viewed by Business Insider.The buyer group will include Oracle, private-equity firm Silver Lake, and MGX, an investment firm based in Abu Dhabi, per the memo.The deal, which TikTok expects to close in January, comes more than a year after Congress passed a law that forced its owner, ByteDance, to divest from its US operations or face a ban, because TikTok was deemed a “foreign adversary-controlled” company.The new US joint venture will operate independently in areas like…