The Era of Ultracheap Stuff Is Under Threat
Factories across Asia are struggling to attract young workers. That’s bad news for Western consumers accustomed to inexpensive goods made...
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Why America’s Largest Tool Company Couldn’t Make a Wrench in America
A highly automated Texas factory was supposed to bring the manufacturing of Craftsman mechanics’ tools back to American shores. The...
Magic Mushrooms. LSD. Ketamine. The Drugs That Power Silicon Valley.
Listen to article(2 minutes)Elon Musk takes ketamine. Sergey Brin sometimes enjoys magic mushrooms. Executives at venture-capital firm Founders Fund, known...
Harry and Meghan Produce a Hollywood Flop: Themselves
Listen to article(2 minutes)LOS ANGELES—Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had been out of the U.K. for nearly two years when...
Jeffrey Epstein Appeared to Threaten Bill Gates Over Microsoft Co-Founder’s Affair With Russian Bridge Player
Listen to article(2 minutes)Jeffrey Epstein discovered that Bill Gates had an affair with a Russian bridge player and later appeared...
Pepsi’s New Healthy Diet: More Potato Chips and Soda
For years, PepsiCo Inc. tried to move past its junk-food roots and shift its business toward hummus, yogurt, kombucha, vegetable...
America Is Back in the Factory Business
Record spending on manufacturing construction heralds a made-in-the-U.S. rebound, stoked by green-energy incentives and concerns about foreign supply chains. Source...
How Chili’s Is Prepping for Tough Times, Starting With the Fries
Rising costs and a shortage of workers are pushing the Southwest-style restaurant chain to do more with lessTanner Davison dining...
China’s Newest Weapon to Nab Western Technology—Its Courts
The growing conflict between China and the U.S. extends from computer-chip factories to a suspected spy balloon over American skies....
Blackstone’s Big New Idea Leaves It Bruised
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Mass Layoffs or Hiring Boom? What’s Actually Happening in the Jobs Market
By Sarah Chaney Cambon and Ray A. SmithFeb. 9, 2023 8:01 am ETListen to article(2 minutes)Interest rates are rising, inflation...
Toyota Rethinks EV Strategy With New CEO
Jan. 29, 2023 11:33 am ETListen to article(2 minutes)Toyota’s chief executive always said he wasn’t a skeptic about electric vehicles—he...
Chips Are the New Oil and America Is Spending Billions to Safeguard Its Supply
Only in the past two years has the U.S. fully grasped that semiconductors are now as central to modern economies...
Public Transit Goes Off the Rails With Fewer Riders, Dwindling Cash, Rising Crime
By Jimmy Vielkind Jan. 8, 2023 1:08 pm ETListen to article(2 minutes)Several of the nation’s largest urban mass-transit systems are...
Tourism and Manufacturing Fight for the Future of Power in Europe
The Ukraine war has spurred the EU to accelerate the shift away from natural gas to wind and solar power,...
Big Nonprofit Hospitals Expand in Wealthier Areas, Shun Poorer Ones
Many of the nation’s largest nonprofit hospital systems, which give aid to poorer communities to earn tax breaks, have been...
Puerto Rico’s Power Failures Worsen After Private Takeover
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Stressed-Out Americans Plan to Buy Fewer Christmas Gifts, Donate Less to Charity
Inflation is souring the holiday season, a crucial time when companies, charities and nonprofits typically collect their biggest haul of...
They Lived Together, Worked Together and Lost Billions Together: Inside Sam Bankman-Fried’s Doomed FTX Empire
NASSAU, Bahamas—Sam Bankman-Fried’s $32 billion crypto-trading empire collapsed in an incandescent bankruptcy last week, prompting irate customers, crypto acolytes and...
How FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried Went From Crypto Golden Boy to Villain
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