www.businessinsider.com People protest Standard Charter Bank’s ties to global warming. Franciskus Simbolon/Jeda untuk Iklim Standard Chartered just helped fund the giant Indonesian coal company Adaro with US$ 400 million. Adaro’s business models are in line with 5-6ºC of global warming,…
www.businessinsider.com Jonathan Ernst/Reuters The US real estate market has been in a frenzied state since last year. It’s led to inventory shortages, high prices, and frequent bidding wars for potential homebuyers. Insider spoke with five realtors who shared their best…
www.businessinsider.com Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming) heads to the House floor to vote at the US Capitol on February 3, 2021. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Liz Cheney told ABC News she now regrets her vote for Trump in the 2020 presidential election.…
www.businessinsider.com To support our colleagues through stressful times, we have to leave bias at the door. Maskot/Getty Images Gender bias — the tendency to associate certain traits more so with one gender — can creep into work. Everyone should be…
www.businessinsider.com A gas station runs out of gasoline after motorists rush to fill up on May 12, 2021 in Arlington, Virginia. Chen Mengtong/China News Service via Getty Images Colonial Pipeline said Saturday that it returned its service to “normal operations.”…
techcrunch.com Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and…
www.businessinsider.com Al Jazeera reports on the destruction of the Al-Jalaa tower in Gaza City. Al Jazeera Al-Jalaa tower housed the offices of several international media organizations. Those in the office building were not given time to evacuate their equipment, according…
markets.businessinsider.com Medina Spirit was the winner of the Triple Crown’s first leg. Preakness Stakes, one of the oldest elite horse races, has stepped into the booming NFT market with 17 auctions for digital assets. Footage of the 146th running of…
www.businessinsider.com American companies only recently tripled the rate at which they added female directors to prominent boards. Tom Werner/Getty Images Professor David Matsa believes “the Big Three” investment companies influenced the recent uptick in female directorships. “The more of a…
www.businessinsider.com Getty Images Paul Constant is a writer at Civic Ventures and cohost of the ” Pitchfork Economics ” podcast with Nick Hanauer and David Goldstein. In the latest episode, they spoke with economist Mariana Mazzucato on government’s role in…