Burned Out, More Americans Are Turning to Part-Time Jobs

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...

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 ...

Mega-Companies Messed Up America’s Job Market. They’re Doing it Again.

Part of what has made America’s job market so tight is that big, publicly traded companies hired like crazy after the pandemic struck. Now that many are slamming into reverse, it seems like there is a...

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...

The Myth of the Tech God Is Crumbling

Tech is full of smart people who build, run and invest in successful companies that have produced a tremendous amount of innovation. But the industry’s recent spate of failures and reversals has made ...

GameStop’s Ryan Cohen Wants to Be More Than a Meme-Stock King

Ryan Cohen is the face of an investing revolution that captivated amateur traders, punished Wall Street and favored memes over fundamentals. Many of his other bets belong to a more conservative playbo...

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 the Inspire Brands CEO Learned to Care About Company Culture

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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 ...

More Bosses Are Spying on Quiet Quitters. It Could Backfire.

In the battle against “quiet quitting” and other obstacles to productivity in the workplace, companies are increasingly turning to an array of sophisticated tools to watch and analyze how employees do...

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...

Nvidia, Tesla, Disney: Stocks That Defined the Week

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Uber, Boeing, Warner Bros. Discovery: Stocks That Defined the Week

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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...

Miami’s Gold Rush: Finance Firms and Crypto Move In, Bringing Strains

From his new office in Miami Beach, real-estate investor Barry Sternlicht is only steps from the ocean. His waterfront mansion is just a short drive away. Cold winters and state income taxes are a thi...

Bosses Swear by the 90-Day Rule to Keep Workers Long Term

In the quest to retain workers, companies are sharpening their focus on a very specific common goal: 90 days. Hold on to an employee for three months, executives and human-resources specialists say, a...

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...