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I have lived most of my life in Minnesota, and, like any good Midwesterner, I planned to grow old in the state. I wanted to live close to my family and friends. I was ready to settle in and call Minneapolis home for the rest of my life.I built a community I loved, and had my little routines down pat. I biked to sunrise yoga at Lake Harriet in the summer, grabbed countless loaves of sourdough from my favorite bakery across the street, and joined an adult swim team at my local community pool each week.So when my boyfriend suggested…

When Jeff Bezos’ father quietly hired a chief executive to manage his fortune in September, the move made headlines.Mike Bezos tapped Valeria Alberola — a former executive for Walmart heir Ben Walton — to lead his Miami-based family office, Aurora Borealis Nezos.The hire is part of a major expansion to manage an estimated $40 billion fortune and support multiple generations of the Bezos family, The Wall Street Journal reported.But to those inside the rarefied world of family offices, the move was anything but surprising.”This has been going on for years,” Michael Kosnitzky, co-leader of Pillsbury’s Private Client & Family Office…

Planes line up on the tarmac at LaGuardia Airport on November 10, 2025 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesThe U.S. has been scrambling to hire more air traffic controllers for years. The longest-ever federal government shutdown might have made that even harder.”We need more of them to come into the profession, and this shutdown is going to make that more difficult for us to accomplish that goal,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said at a press conference at Chicago O’Hare International Airport on Tuesday, a day before Congress signed a bill to fund the…

2025-11-15T12:52:01.238Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link 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. Baker Mandy Edmunds and her husband, Dave Edmunds, transformed their garage into a second kitchen. The kitchen serves as the dedicated space for Mandy Edmunds’ dessert business, Sugared Up Cookies. The process took about eight months and cost the couple $26,000. You can never have too many cookies —…

Tyler Errickson isn’t planning to compete with the biggest firms in the $5 trillion hedge fund industry — he’s hoping to help them.Riptide Advisors, Errickson’s new multimanager firm that’s set to start trading on January 1, was created to address the industry’s biggest challenge: a shortage of talented, experienced portfolio managers.The new manager’s focus, Errickson said, is to be “basically a seeding vehicle” that will let unproven but promising talent — think an analyst at a big firm like Millennium who has never managed a book on their own — run small portfolios of up to $20 million with the…

Warren Buffett published his final letter to shareholders as Berkshire Hathaway CEO on Monday, as he prepares to step down before the new year. His followers reacted with a mixture of sadness, gratitude, and admiration.The legendary business leader and investor, 95, has transformed Berkshire from a failing textile mill into a $1 trillion conglomerate over the past 60 years by acquiring scores of businesses such as Geico and Dairy Queen, and amassing huge stakes in corporate giants including Coca-Cola and American Express.Buffett wrote this week that he would continue writing a Thanksgiving letter as Berkshire’s chairman, reflected on his life,…

You might be hugging your job, but the big boss — not so much.CEO departures across corporate America remain at record levels, while many everyday workers are clinging to their roles as they face a cooling job market, anxiety over AI, and a resurgent no-nonsense management style.The result is a corporate split screen: CEOs can generally roll out and land on their feet, while workers feel stuck, said Richard Smith, a professor at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School.Unlike many rank-and-file employees who rely on regular paychecks and fear layoffs, erstwhile CEOs often have a financial cushion. That means they…

Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks during a roundtable on criminal cartels with President Donald Trump in the State Dining Room of the White House, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025, in Washington. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption toggle caption Evan Vucci/AP NEW YORK — Acceding to President Donald Trump’s demands, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Friday that she has ordered a top federal prosecutor to investigate sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to Trump political foes, including former President Bill Clinton. Bondi posted on X that she was assigning Manhattan U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton to lead the probe, capping an eventful week in…

The war between Disney and YouTube TV is finally over.Roughly 10 million YouTube TV subscribers can once again watch ESPN and Disney’s other TV networks after a two-week fight between the media juggernaut and the Google-owned live TV service.”We’re happy to share that we’ve reached an agreement with Disney that preserves the value of our service for our subscribers and future flexibility in our offers,” YouTube said in a statement. “Subscribers should see channels including ABC, ESPN, and FX returning to their service over the course of the day, as well as any recordings that were previously in their Library.…

Donald TrumpAl Drago/Bloomberg President Donald Trump pulled Donald Korb as his nominee to be the IRS’s top attorney days after getting blowback from a prominent member of his political movement, derailing plans to confirm the longtime tax lawyer next week.Trump alerted followers to his decision to withdraw the nomination of Korb to be IRS chief counsel and assistant general counsel at the Treasury Department in a post on his Truth Social platform late Friday.Trump didn’t give a reason for the withdrawal, and spokespeople at the White House, Treasury Department, and IRS didn’t immediately return requests for comment. Korb also didn’t…