Part-time work is exploding. The number of Americans working part time rose by 1.2 million in December and January compared with the preceding months, according to the Labor Department. Most of that i...
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AI Becomes Silicon Valley’s Next Buzzy Bandwagon as Crypto Boom Fizzles
The new artificial-intelligence tools getting widespread attention for spitting out text, images and computer code are also generating something else: talk of the next technology bubble. Technologists...
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 as oil. In the digitizing world, power tools commonly come with Bluetooth chips that tr...
The Craziest Moments From the Longest Tech Boom (So Far)
It’s been a singular year for tech, one that marked the apparent end to a heady, madcap boom that changed how we think about the industry. Over the past dozen or so years, a tidal wave of money poure...
Your Coworkers Are Less Ambitious; Bosses Adjust to the New Order
Listen to article (2 minutes) Where have all the go-getters gone? At law firm Nixon Peabody LLP, associates have started saying no to working weekends, prompting partners to ask more people to help c...
Six Ways to Protect Your Money in 2023
The highest inflation in four decades. A bear market in stocks. Fears of a recession. A crypto implosion. The past year was a trying one for American households. It strained their budgets, reduced the...
Survival Lessons From Past Tech Downturns
People who have been in the tech industry long enough to remember its previous major downturns have a message for those facing the current one: Decisions made now will determine who survives—and lay t...
Apple Makes Plans to Move Production Out of China
In recent weeks, Apple Inc. has accelerated plans to shift some of its production outside China, long the dominant country in the supply chain that built the world’s most valuable company, say people ...
Get Big Tax Breaks for 2022 by Acting Now
It’s time to make year-end tax moves. With inflation way up and markets way down for 2022, there’s plenty to track. As in the past, most actions for tax-year 2022 must be made before Jan. 1, 2023. The...
Walmart Is Flexing Its Muscle Again
America’s biggest retailer has a new message for its suppliers: We’re not going to pay higher prices anymore. Walmart Inc. Chief Executive Doug McMillon delivered the warning in person last month in a...
An American Helped Build a Business Inside China. Clients Want Him to Leave.
It took Jacob Rothman two decades to build a Chinese manufacturing business with his friends and family. Now the 49-year-old American executive says customers want him to make some of his grilling too...
How to Make Peace With Your Stock Market Losses
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The Next Big Battle Between Google and Apple Is for the Soul of Your Car
A few years from now, in addition to deciding your next vehicle’s make and model, you may have another tough choice: the Google model or the Apple one? Other options may include “car maker generic” an...
Crypto Investors Got Burned by Celsius. Then They Battled Back.
Cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network LLC attracted scores of people over the last five years who wanted to make money betting on bitcoin. After a crypto crash pushed the company into bankruptcy this ...
Enough, Bosses Say: This Fall, It Really Is Time to Get Back to the Office*
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What $80 Billion More for the IRS Means for Your Taxes
The last Tax Report came out just as Congress took up the Inflation Reduction Act, and it discussed the bill’s $80 billion in proposed new Internal Revenue Service funding. Over half the new dollars w...
Got Hidden Income? The IRS May Get More Money to Find You
If Congress passes the Inflation Reduction Act, Americans should expect more IRS audits—especially on filers making more than $400,000 a year. The surprise agreement between Sens. Chuck Schumer (D., N...
America’s New Energy Crisis – WSJ
America is wrestling with the worst energy crisis in nearly five decades, a period of high prices and limited supply. What makes this crisis different than the troubles that roiled the country in the ...
Bed Bath & Beyond Followed a Winning Playbook—and Lost
Mark Tritton arrived at Bed Bath & Beyond in 2019 with a plan to revive the home-goods retailer and ward off competition from Amazon.com Inc., Target Corp. and other large chains: sell what nobody...
The Crypto Party Is Over
On Super Bowl Sunday, a Crypto.com ad featuring billionaire NBA star LeBron James lit up millions of Americans’ TVs. “If you want to make history, you gotta call your own shots,” Mr. James said in the...
This Half-Built Ohio Factory Shows How Peloton Mismanaged the Pandemic
In a northwest Ohio industrial park, up the highway from a new Amazon.com Inc. warehouse and a soon-to-open solar-panel plant, Peloton Interactive is building a million-square-foot factory that it wil...
Stocks Are Way Down. They’re Still Expensive.
U.S. stocks are off to their worst start to a year in more than a half-century. By some measures, they still look expensive. Wall Street often uses the ratio of a company’s share price to its earnings...
It’s the Worst Bond Market Since 1842. That’s the Good News.
So far in 2022, with inflation raging, bonds have lost 10%—among the worst returns in U.S. history. On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 0.5 percentage point, the sharpest increa...