Let’s say you come home and there’s a gorilla sitting on the couch in your nicely appointed living room. You are partly to blame for leaving the door unlocked, but world events have also conspired to let him in the door.

You are carrying a baseball bat. But you know that getting into a fight with an unruly 300-pound beast is going to wreck the house. You try nudging him out the door without creating a lot of collateral damage, but that doesn’t work. So now it’s clear that some furniture is going to get broken.

On July 6 a doctor at the Mount Sinai West medical center in New York threaded a 1.5-inch-long implant made up of wires and electrodes into a blood vessel in the brain of a patient with ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The hope is that the patient, who’s lost the ability to move and speak, will be able to surf the web and communicate via email and text simply by thinking—the device will translate his thoughts into commands sent to a computer.

Armstrong’s message led to some resignations, and tons of media coverage ahead of Coinbase’s public stock listing. Detractors, including former Twitter CEO

For fans of professional sports, the insistent overtures from the crypto industry have become almost impossible to miss: The names of exchanges and blockchain companies are emblazoned on team jerseys, plastered on stadiums, and beckoning from halftime TV commercials. They’re talked up by prominent players who enjoy lucrative endorsement deals.

This nascent band of businesses has moved aggressively since last year to match the advertising muscle of beer brands, carmakers, telecom service providers, and other stalwart sports sponsors.

An increasingly popular sales pitch on Wall Street goes like this: If you’ve insured your home against some disaster, or even a total loss, shouldn’t you do the same for your investment portfolio? In the case of a house or apartment, the danger would be fire, flooding, or perhaps a devastating storm. In the financial markets, it might be a sudden spike in volatility and a rapid decline in prices that wipes out months if not years of gains.

For investors of all stripes, from the most august institution to the scrappiest day trader, the current maelstrom of sustained inflation, never-ending pandemic, war, rapidly rising interest rates, swooning tech stocks, and crypto collapse—what economic historian Adam Tooze calls a

Unlike the exploding home price bubble that triggered the 2008 financial crisis and left millions of foreclosed properties in its wake, this is an affordability crisis. The biggest risk to the economy now is a deep and prolonged sales slump that could give the $4 trillion industry a starring role once again in the

Like most 18-year-olds, Kyler Kennard didn’t know what he wanted to do with the rest of his life. So after graduating from high school he put off college and took a job as a technician at a subsidiary of Canon U.S.A. Inc., a division of imaging company Canon Inc., near his home in the Dallas suburbs.

Kennard had already been preparing for a career in media technology through a youth apprenticeship program at his high school. He says his job at Canon pays $20 an hour and comes with good benefits—a lot more enticing than his other options, driving for

In a stunning crime spree, a pair allegedly stole millions of dollars in watches, bags, and other luxury items from celebrities, the fabulously wealthy, and even friends. Their trial begins on Aug. 25.

Chloe Dykstra’s seven Razor scooters have entertained her throughout the pandemic. During lockdown, she also occupied herself building a Lego typewriter. Now she’s eyeing a Sea-Monkeys Aquarium pet hatching kit. Although the toys were designed for kids, that doesn’t bother Dykstra, a 33-year-old writer and producer in Los Angeles. “Sometimes taking care of yourself looks like going back to childhood a little bit,” she says.

A cohort of shoppers like Dykstra—dubbed “kidults” by toy industry insiders—have helped US toy sales surge 37% over two years, to $28.6 billion in 2021, according to data tracker

Fear is like acid on the brain, etching memories that remain long after you’ve forgotten things like the formula for photosynthesis or your first boyfriend’s favorite band.

More than a quarter century has gone by, but there’s so much I remember about that day in Miami: The tacky black satin sheets on the bed in the one-bedroom condo my boyfriend’s friend had loaned us for our weekend trip, the white glare of the sun outside, and the double line on the indicator window of the at-home pregnancy test I held in my hand.

In the early days of the pandemic, when markets plunged and 22 million Americans lost their jobs, Congress and the Federal Reserve sprang into action to stabilize an economy at risk of buckling. After trillions of dollars of Covid-19 relief cash and a monsoon of cheap federally sponsored loans, US households are sitting on

Fear is like acid on the brain, etching memories that remain long after you’ve forgotten things like the formula for photosynthesis or your first boyfriend’s favorite band.

More than a quarter century has gone by, but there’s so much I remember about that day in Miami: The tacky black satin sheets on the bed in the one-bedroom condo my boyfriend’s friend had loaned us for our weekend trip, the white glare of the sun outside, and the double line on the indicator window of the at-home pregnancy test I held in my hand.

People will confess all sorts of things to podcasters, from their unpopular political beliefs or embarrassing romantic mishaps to their worst fears. But there’s one revelation certain guests will never disclose—namely, that they’re paying thousands of dollars just to be interviewed on the show.

When investor demand for Chinese property debt was approaching its peak back in 2018, a banker could pull together the makings of a multi-million dollar deal during a Saturday boat trip around Hong Kong’s harbor and barely look up from her drink while doing it.

Now, the $203 billion market—which once yielded several deals a week and padded portfolios across the world from Pimco to UBS—is all but dead. And offshore investors are swallowing almost all of the losses. 

For fans of professional sports, the insistent overtures from the crypto industry have become almost impossible to miss: The names of exchanges and blockchain companies are emblazoned on team jerseys, plastered on stadiums, and beckoning from halftime TV commercials. They’re talked up by prominent players who enjoy lucrative endorsement deals.

This nascent band of businesses has moved aggressively since last year to match the advertising muscle of beer brands, carmakers, telecom service providers, and other stalwart sports sponsors.

Nivedita Bhasin became the world’s youngest commercial airline captain in 1989, but the Indian pilot still recalls her early years when other crew would urge her to rush into the cockpit so passengers wouldn’t get nervous at the sight of a woman flying their plane.

Three decades after Bhasin’s career began, female pilots are no longer a rarity in India, making the country a success story when it comes to diversity in the airline industry. India has the highest percentage of female pilots globally, the