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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Erin Smith, a 47-year-old a freelance marketer and founder of the travel blog Gluten-Free Globetrotter, who moved to Montreal in 2024. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.I was born and raised in New York and spent my last twenty years living in Brooklyn. I just didn’t want to be anywhere else.Not even in 2016, when I moved with my then-boyfriend, who is now my husband, to Santa Cruz. Even though it was beautiful there, I just wasn’t happy. I had to get back to the city, back to…

The best things, as the saying goes, come in threes.This year, with a trio of lawsuits from national brands against retailers, the same could be said for the typically obscure area of intellectual property law known as trade dress.Earlier this summer, snack maker Mondelez sued discount grocer Aldi over several of its lookalike cookie packages. Then, Lululemon sued Costco for selling several popular apparel items. And this month, JM Smucker sued Trader Joe’s for skating too close to its Smucker’s Uncrustables line of frozen PB&J sandwiches.While there are nuances to each case, the phenomenon of household names battling it out…

President Donald Trump said he’d lob more tariffs on Canada, on Saturday. Hours later, Ontario’s ad featuring former President Ronald Reagan criticizing tariffs aired during game two of the World Series.The ad was expected. The campaign was released by Ontario’s Premier, Doug Ford, and it has been the latest flash point in trade tensions between the US and its neighbor to the north.The advertisement initially drew Trump’s ire on Thursday night, and he posted to Truth Social to say that he was terminating all trade negotiations with Canada. Ontario subsequently announced on Friday that the ad would be pulled by…

2025-10-25T21:48:00Z 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. Trump said in a Truth Social post that he’ll increase tariffs on Canada by another 10%. Trump said the increase was in response to an anti-tariff ad made in Ontario featuring Reagan. Ontario paused airing the ad after Trump ended trade talks. President Donald Trump said he’ll increase tariffs…

The world’s top leaders often say they can read people better than anyone else — a trait that has long intrigued psychologists and management experts.Some call it an art, others say it’s a science.Sequoia partner Jess Lee — a Silicon Valley veteran who previously worked at Google and Yahoo, and founded the e-commerce company Polyvore, which Yahoo acquired for $200 million in 2015 — shared some of her secrets on a recent episode of “The Library of Minds” podcast.Lee said she now relies on a process to evaluate workers beyond quantifiable metrics, which she learned from her Sequoia colleague Shawn…

Updated 2025-10-25T14:07:01Z 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. As more employees return to the office, some are being met with limited space — and bedbugs. While open floorplans are now in style, people used to sit in small cubicles. Offices used to have typing pools with dozens of typewriters. In 2025, we all have laptops. Thanks…

A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.More than a third of the condo apartments sold in Manhattan over roughly the past year sold at a loss, although the top end of the market fared better, according to a new report.Despite the steady stream of headlines about eye-popping sales and soaring prices in Manhattan real estate, the median price per square foot for Manhattan condos is essentially flat from a decade ago, according to a report from Brown Harris Stevens. One in…

The frontrunner of the New York City mayoral race has big plans ahead.Zohran Mamdani’s meteoric rise as the Democratic candidate is not just fueled by his social media prowess. It is also spearheaded by his plans to provide universal childcare, make buses free, freeze the rent for rent-stabilized units, build more affordable housing, and create a pilot program experimenting with city-operated grocery stores.His key plans would be funded by a proposed 11.5% increase in state corporate tax, which is estimated to bring in new annual revenue of $5 billion, as well $4 billion in income from a proposed 2% increase…

Anish Pathipati spent years honing his skills as a private equity investor, and now, he’s decided to “hang out a shingle,” launching his own fund, Simha Partners.The last time we spoke to Pathipati for our 2018 Wall Street Rising Stars series, he was a director at North Island, a private equity firm founded by Glenn Hutchins, a cofounder of Silver Lake. He then joined Periphas Capital, cofounded by Sanjeev Mehra, a cofounder of Goldman Sachs’ private investment arm.He’s applying what he’s learned from these renowned investors to inform his plan for Simha Partners, which raised $45 million for its first…

After three stints at Microsoft spanning more than two decades, Joe Friend was laid off in May. He’s still figuring out what’s next, but there’s one thing he’s sure of: His time in Big Tech is over.About six months earlier, Friend, a director of product management overseeing a team of nine, started hearing rumors of company restructuring that could affect managers. However, he didn’t believe his specific role was in jeopardy.But he was wrong. In May, he learned that he and 14 other members of his working group — including four other managers — had been laid off.”I wasn’t entirely…