The U.S. Is Facing a Severe Housing Shortage. Will Trump’s Proposals Help?The U.S. is short approximately four million homes. Wharton economist Ben Keys traces the beginning of the housing crisis to the 2008 financial meltdown — and says climate change is making things worse.
‘White Gold’ Seen As Pivotal to Europe’s Massive Trade Deal With South AmericaAnalysts at ING said the significance of critical raw materials like lithium seemed to be “making less headlines” in the coverage of the free trade agreement.
I Was a Cybertruck Skeptic. Then I Got Behind the Wheel of One.A year after its debut, the polarizing vehicle has come to embody Tesla’s infamous CEO, with critics suggesting it’s as defective and unreliable as Elon Musk himself.
Has the Airbnb bubble burst?Airbnb was once the darling of the holiday market, but hosts are now complaining about a sudden drop in bookings - while some former rental homes are being put up for sale as cities bring in restrictions.
Is India’s Economic Boom Fading?After years of being hailed as the fastest-growing global economy, India's growth story is hitting a roadblock. With sluggish wage growth, people are buying less, spending less and paying more for food and loans. The inflation and the cost of borrowing remain high.
Glitter and Greed: ‘The Lisa Frank Story’ Paints a Dark Portrait of the Beloved Kids’ Brand Tracing the rise, fall, and attempts at the rebranding of Lisa Frank, Inc., Glitter and Greed works to understand the woman at the center of it all—the notoriously private Lisa Frank—whom the docuseries outlines as an extreme figure prone to emotional highs and lows and as a toxic, little-seen manager capable of making threats and outbursts.
£1.68bn accounts trick inflated water firm's booksOne of England's top-rated water companies is using an accounting trick to artificially inflate its balance sheet by more than a billion pounds, BBC Panorama has discovered. Severn Trent Water claims that an investment is worth £1.
Phone Maker Xiaomi Made the Car That Apple Couldn'tIf you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIRED You more than likely know Xiaomi, so-called Apple of China, as a maker of smartphones that offer a decent alternative to Samsung.
24-year-old's businesses are on track to bring in $1.7 million this year—how he knows an idea is worth pursuingSteven Guo launched his first business when he was 12 — "basically by accident," he says. That summer, he developed a Minecraft server and sold in-game perks to players. He ended up making $10,000 within a few months.
2025 could be the year of 'revenge quitting' — here's how bosses should prepareWith a job market heating up and employee resentment boiling over, "revenge quitting" looks to be on the horizon for 2025.
Lord of the ringtones: Nokia celebrates pop-culture status by opening design archive“Everyone remembers their first Nokia,” says Mark Mason, who joined the telecoms company’s design team back in its 1990s heyday. “When you say the name, it evokes a memory.
Apple Smells Blood in the WaterIn just the last year and a half, Apple launched Final Cut on iPad and Final Cut Camera, updated Final Cut Pro to a new version for the first time in 13 years, and moved to purchase Pixelmator. As Adobe’s public perception continues to struggle, Apple is making moves to take advantage.
Interstellar’s Most Enduring Quality Is What People Used to Hate About ItIt might be hard to imagine now, but for much of 2014, many awards pundits considered Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar to be that year’s Oscar front-runner.
Sick of how much streaming costs now? These are the only 3 streaming services you needIf you're fed up with what streaming costs these days, you're not alone. With endless options for the best streaming services and constant price hikes, it can be hard to keep up.
Artificial Intelligence wants to go nuclear. Will it work?MIDDLETOWN, Pennsylvania — Standing in front of one of Three Mile Island's iconic cooling towers, Bryan Hanson remembers the day in 2019 when he shut the nuclear plant down. Three Mile Island is best known because its Unit 2 reactor partially melted down in 1979.