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[ad_1] America is about to tumble off the edge of a massive demographic cliff.The timing is no coincidence. The US birth rate peaked in 2007, with just over 4.3 million babies born that year. That number has dropped almost every year since, reaching a 30-year low of 3.8 million births in 2017. Last year, the rate was down to 3.6 million.Now, those 2007 babies are turning 18 (ugh, I know). As they prepare to start college and enter the workforce, their transition to adulthood signals a new reality for universities, employers, and the whole of America’s economy. Every year from…

[ad_1] Despite what you may have seen on the internet lately, Las Vegas is not dead. The casinos are not empty. The streets aren’t bare. If I’m being honest here, I wouldn’t have minded a little less crowding during my little mid-August gals’ jaunt to Sin City in an ill-fated attempt to see Kelly Clarkson, who canceled her residency there this month. But the vibe in Vegas is different. It’s a slow summer, and it shows.Touristically speaking, this has been an unfun year for Vegas. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority says visitor volume to the city fell by…

[ad_1] Charles Meoni may be 82, but he knows he can drive an 18-wheeler. He just can’t seem to find a hiring manager who agrees.For decades, Meoni worked as a truck driver, earning about $1,200 a week at his peak. Twenty years ago, his heart and neck started to hurt. Doctors found he had an aneurysm. He treated his condition with medications, then had a major heart surgery this February that put him out of work.Once he was ready to return, his job was no longer available. He sent applications to other local transportation companies, and still couldn’t find work.”Most…

[ad_1] Wall Street’s best hires don’t look anything like the résumés it worships, said Jeff Aronson, a cofounder of Centerbridge Partners, a private equity firm managing more than $42 billion in assets.”I joke with people I couldn’t get a job at my own firm,” Aronson said in the Goldman Sachs “Exchanges” podcast on July 16.”I didn’t go to an Ivy League school. I didn’t graduate Phi Beta Kappa. I don’t speak six languages. I didn’t discover the cure for cancer when I was nine years old,” he said in the recording uploaded on Tuesday.Aronson came up through Johns Hopkins, where…

[ad_1] The face behind Duolingo’s blockbuster marketing campaigns said virality comes with a human cost.Zaria Parvez, who announced her departure from her role as senior global social media manager to pursue another social media role, said her best work came when she put work-life balance aside.”There was a lot of, ‘I’m not gonna check Slack after 5. I’m going to actually work a 40-hour week,'” she said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal published on Wednesday. “But I will say, when I didn’t separate my life from my work, I succeeded far more in my role. That’s a…

[ad_1] Lovable CEO Anton Osika says he looks for four key attributes when he hires for his company.Osika said in an interview with Business Insider on Wednesday that he looks for candidates for his vibe coding startup who demonstrate “slope, breadth, curiosity, and bias to build.”Firstly, Osika said candidates needed to have “slope, not just skill.” The 35-year-old said that a candidate’s “slope” refers to their ability to pick up new skills and navigate a learning curve.”I care more about how fast someone learns and adapts than where they are today. If a conversation feels alive, if I walk away…

[ad_1] Stocks @ Night is a daily newsletter delivered after hours, giving you a first look at tomorrow and last look at today. Sign up for free to receive it directly in your inbox. Here’s what CNBC TV’s producers were watching as the S & P 500 logged a fourth straight losing day, and what’s on the radar for the next session. Walmart The retail giant will post quarterly earnings on Thursday morning. ” Squawk Box ” will have the numbers and the instant reaction, plus the premarket stock move. Walmart shares have gained nearly 5% in the past three…

[ad_1] If you have been eyeing something from overseas, you may want to click “buy now” today.Postal services operated by Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Belgium — Posten Bring, PostNord, and bpost — said they will suspend parcel shipments to the US ahead of the end of a customs exemption that allows low-value packages to enter the country duty-free.The conundrum facing postal operators comes as the Trump administration prepares to suspend the “de minimis” exemption starting on August 29. The exemption used to allow international shipments under $800 to cross the border with minimal paperwork and no duties.Now, these shipments will…

[ad_1] TikTok is done nudging its e-commerce advertisers toward AI — it’s now pulling them headfirst into a future in which algorithms, not marketers, call the shots.The platform’s guidelines say that starting September 1, brands that want to pay to advertise products for sale in their TikTok Shops will have to use a tool called GMV Max, ad buyers tell Business Insider. Introduced in 2024, the TikTok tool uses an AI algorithm to decide how to get advertisers the most bang for their buck.Merchants pick products in their TikTok Shop they want to advertise, set a budget and target return…

[ad_1] Jimmy Fallon. Alexandra Cooper. Steph Curry. The Jonas Brothers. Google isn’t just paying big to score major AI talent — it’s also ponying up for celeb talent.If you tuned into Google’s Pixel event on Wednesday, you might have lost track of the number of celebrities flashing across your screen in the first five minutes.The annual “Made by Google” keynote opened with a star-studded video montage, with celebrities “passing the phone” to each other. It kicked off with “Call Her Daddy” podcaster Alex Cooper and then cut to a number of household names and notable figures, including NBA star Steph…