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View MoreChristopher Altman saw it in the same way that most small business owners do: in the quiet of an inbox that used to fill up on its own, rather than all at once. His Oakland tree-trimming crew scheduled three weeks off for years without his involvement. Then, the reservations simply…
The atmosphere changed somewhere between a half-empty diesel station outside Hamburg and the screens of a London trading floor. Like these things often do, it happened quietly. In January, Brent crude was trading at about sixty dollars. It was close to 120 by the second week of March. Ten weeks.…
During a widely publicized interview at a tech conference in the summer of 2023, Linda Yaccarino calmly argued that X was a platform that advertisers could rely on. She had only been working there for a few weeks. According to most accounts, she was a seasoned media executive with real…
The silence in a department store that is closing has a certain quality. The glass cases, the carpeted aisles, and the overhead lighting humming over dwindling inventory are all still in place. Final discounts are marked with encouraging red numbers on signs. A few workers are standing close to registers…
Something changes around the third or fourth time someone opens their banking app and sees a charge they truly can’t place—$14.99 from something called Paramount+, perhaps, or $9.99 for a fitness app they downloaded during a short, hopeful January. For an increasing number of people, the mild annoyance that once…