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In college, I was burning the candle at both ends, trying to balance part-time work and full-time classes.I wasn’t eating or sleeping enough and felt like I was always busy and missing out on spending time with my family and friends. Still, I made time for my long-term relationship with a guy I’d been seeing since high school. Over the years, I’d spent a lot of time with his family, and I especially admired his mother and how she seemed to juggle so many responsibilities yet never appeared burned out.During one visit to her house, she told me she’d noticed…

Thousands gather to protest the Missouri legislature’s efforts to redraw congressional maps to favor the GOP and amend the initiative petition process on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025, at the state Capitol in Jefferson City. Brian Munoz/St. Louis Public Radio hide caption toggle caption Brian Munoz/St. Louis Public Radio KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Lately, on any given day, you’ll find Leann Villaluz knocking on doors around Kansas City to get people to sign a petition that would let voters decide the fate of the state’s new congressional map. “There’s a sense of resentment, even to regular voters who aren’t as involved,”…

Updated 2025-10-18T13:11:01Z 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. Built in 1765, Morris-Jumel Mansion is the oldest surviving residence in Manhattan. I went on a tour of the house that included the use of paranormal investigative equipment. While I’m still a skeptic and didn’t see any ghosts, I enjoyed learning about the historical site. Located off 162nd…

Trading cards of the game “Magic” are located in a shop where a “Magic” tournament is taking place.Frank Rumpenhorst | picture alliance | Getty ImagesAs screentime soars and technology races ahead, a low-tech pastime is back in a big way: collecting trading cards.The cardstock depicting everything from NFL standouts to Pokémon and even Taylor Swift is one of the hottest toy categories in stores this year. Big-box retailers are stocking up ahead of the holidays, anticipating that demand will extend beyond traditional toy buyers like children and collectors.”We see trading cards being a hot gifting category for all ages that…

When I graduated from college in 2021, I had to make some difficult decisions.My plan to stay in the off-campus apartment I shared with a roommate quickly fell apart. When my student loans kicked in at over $600 a month, I couldn’t handle the payment and my rent on my part-time income.I wanted to go to graduate school, but the thought of taking on another set of massive loans while unable to afford the ones I already owed closed that door for the foreseeable future.At that point, I chose to move back home with my mom.There were benefits to moving…

Pressure is among the few certainties of daily life on Wall Street — and knowing how to manage it is key to success.Business Insider asked its 2025 Rising Stars of Wall Street how they set boundaries and maintain routines to stay grounded in an industry where the threat of burnout lurks behind each promotion. All of them are standing out at some of the country’s top financial firms at age 35 or younger, and somehow maintaining personal lives and sanity in the process.Since Wall Street has little respect for the evening hours, mornings are precious to many of this year’s…

Joi-Marie McKenzie 2025-10-18T10:45:01Z 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. It’s my favorite time of year: It’s officially sweatshirts and shorts weather. Or better known as the time when temperatures cool, the leaves on the trees are bursting into charming colors, and we’re all going back inside.As we look toward home, there are a few micro improvements…

This week, the world’s leading financial institutions were acting like bad roommates. All it took was one multibillion-dollar “cockroach” for everyone to start pointing fingers and assigning blame.Two years ago, Blackstone’s President Jon Gray said private credit was in a “golden moment,” and it has since become the hottest corner of Wall Street. There have always been private credit critics, but a deluge of digs from industry watchers turned the spotlight back on the so-called shadow lenders, challenging their shining narrative and raising uncomfortable questions about potential contagions.It kicked off on Tuesday, when Jamie Dimon, Wall Street’s bluntest banking billionaire,…

Sometimes when you get the bag, you are also, literally, getting the bag.The secondhand market is a bright spot for luxury. The global resale market is growing three times as fast as the firsthand market and is expected to reach as high as $360 billion by 2030 — up from between $210 billion and $220 billion today — according to a report by BCG and Vestiaire Collective released this month.Handbags reliably drive luxury secondhand sales. The nearly 8,000 respondents to BCG and Vestaire’s survey said that an average of 40% of their handbags were purchased secondhand — an outsize share,…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jash Mehta, the cofounder of Pop & Bottle, an organic, dairy-free coffee and tea brand. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I’ve been building Pop & Bottle, a better-for-you coffee and tea company, for about 10 years now. I didn’t come from a food-and-beverage background — I was in consulting before this — but I always had an entrepreneurial itch.I grew up in a family of business owners, and from a young age, I was dipping into projects for them, learning the basics of running something of my own.It wasn’t until…