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'I don't know how long I can stay in business': Truckers' fears have soared to recession-level highs

While the economy has mostly posted numbers that indicate health, truckers like Christopher Powell have seen their pay hit the skids.

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Ray Dalio says anyone who wants to understand today's world should read this 32-year-old book about empires

Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio touted a 1987 book by a Yale historian as an illuminating chronicle that is still relevant today.

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These are the social media platforms teens are ditching in 2019

Gen Z is increasingly shifting away from apps like Facebook to YouTube and Snapchat, says a Business Insider survey.

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Trump rails against Fox News for its weekend coverage, says watching it is worse than CNN

President Donald Trump on Sunday slammed Fox News — his preferred cable news network — for  "loading up with Democrats" and for citing the "Fake" New York Times in its reporting.

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Amazon is reportedly making over $100 million from one of its open source businesses — but the CEO behind the original software says Amazon isn’t slowing down its business

The Information reported that Amazon appears to make as much money on Elasticsearch as Elastic does. Here's what Elastic CEO Shay Banon has to say.

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Home Depot is swooping into new territory after realizing it underestimated millennials

Around five summers ago, a group of Home Depot interns helped to relieve the company's worries about how millennials would take to home improvement.

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A financial planner does the same 2-part calculation to figure out how much every client needs to retire

Social Security is on shaky ground, and experts believe changes are imminent. Now more than ever, you shouldn't rely on Social Security.

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Positano — the colorful, Instagram-famous town on Italy's Amalfi Coast — is almost comically beautiful, but be prepared to deal with hordes of tourists and sky-high prices

I went all the way to southern Italy to find out whether Positano was just an Instagram thirst trap, or if it had a soul of its own.

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Deutsche Bank is kicking off a brutal cull of 18,000 jobs as part of a $8.3 billion overhaul. Here's what we know about what's going on at the German bank.

The CEO of Germany's biggest bank is kicking off a massive overhaul. "In rebuilding our bank, we are making deep cuts," the CEO told staff.

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