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☆ Ruth Bader Ginsburg died at 87 after serving as a Supreme Court Justice for 27 years. Here's a look at the trailblazer's life and career.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Rachel Premack | Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on September 18, 2020, due to complications from cancer. She was a left-leaning Associate Justice on the Supreme Court for nearly three decades and a pop culture icon. "Today we mourn, but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her — a tireless and resolute champion of justice," Roberts continued. She spent decades as a trailblazer in gender equality law before she became an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court — and a pop culture icon. AdvertisementAdvertisementShe was on the nation's highest court for nearly 30 years, ever since she took her oath on August 10, 1993.

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☆ Ex-Amazon boss Dave Clark abruptly resigns from Flexport after just one year as co-CEO
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Rachel Premack | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Dave Clark left his role as Amazon's worldwide consumer CEO in 2022 to join Flexport, a logistics company. Clarkofficially joined Flexport in September 2022as co-CEO with Flexport founder Ryan Petersen. "Today, Dave Clark resigned as CEO of Flexport," the representative said in an emailed statement to FreightWaves. Just over an hour after Clark's post on X, Petersen — known for his cheeky tone on the social media site — posted "I'm back!!!" On Tuesday, the day before Clark stepped down, Flexport advertised an in-person event to launch a new product hosted by Clark and Petersen.

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☆ How to win the lottery, according to a Romanian-born mathematician who hacked the system, won 14 times, and retired on a remote tropical island
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Rachel Premack | Azmi Haroun | Senior Features Reporter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

You might want to know how to win the lottery — especially as the Powerball jackpot jumps to a $750 million payout. Stefan Mandel, a Romanian-Australian economist, developed a formula that's allowed him to win the lottery 14 times. You're four times as likely to be struck by lightning than to win the lottery. Those odds apparently don't apply to Stefan Mandel, a Romanian-Australian economist who's won the lottery 14 times, The Hustle reported in a feature story about the mathematician. You can no longer buy lottery tickets in bulk and print your tickets at home — two key parts of Mandel's formula.

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☆ A downbeat economy has left truck drivers facing a slowdown that could get worse than 2008
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Phil Rosen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The slowing US economy is hitting truck drivers, and the sector could be heading for worse conditions than 2008. Freight demand has deteriorated over the last year, and per-mile rates for drivers have plunged since the pandemic boom in 2021. For example, drivers are commanding per-mile rates as low as $1.49 per mile, per FreightWaves. Those rates hovered at $3.01 two years ago, and are worse than the levels seen in a brutal 2019 slowdown. Meanwhile, the American Trucking Associations' advanced seasonally adjusted for-hire truck tonnage index dropped 5.4% in March, marking the largest monthly drop since April 2020.

☆ Wall Street is completely delusional about the pain that's about to hit the stock market
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( Linette Lopez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Despite this clear warning, Wall Street is still delusionally optimistic about how the stock market will perform in 2023. According to Bloomberg, Wall Street analysts expect S&P 500 companies' earnings per share to hit $229 in 2023 — a steady increase from their initial 2023 estimate of $211 at the start of this year. Pretend it's the end of 2019 — not a terrible time for the stock market and the US economy. Even if corporate profits sink back down to that healthy level, it's still a long way down from where the stock market sits right now. All the visuals you've seen of a screaming-red stock market and sweaty traders doing the sign of the cross — those are just the beginning.

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☆ How the $36 billion vitamin industry tricked a generation of adults into believing sugary gummies were the ticket to good health
▼ + stars: | 2020-10-07 | by ( Rachel Premack | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +21 min

But some consumer advocates and doctors worry that those supplements don't have as many benefits as people think. "Our gummy vitamins have been on fire," CEO Matt Farrell told investors in a July earnings call. He said that Hero Nutritionals, founded in 1995, created the first gummy vitamin for the American market. A Perrigo representative said it no longer manufactured gummy vitamins, and it did not respond to further inquiries.) But the doctor had something to admit: He takes a gummy vitamin every day.

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A resignation letter is one of the first steps in quitting your job. After talking to career experts, Business Insider has provided a sample of the exact format you should use in a resignation letter. Tim Vipond, CEO of Corporate Finance Institute, told Business Insider that a resignation letter is really just a formality after you've had a conversation with your manager. Similarly, job coach Lea McLeod previously told Business Insider that your letter doesn't need to be a summary of your entire employment history. Here's the exact format you should follow when writing a resignation letter to your boss.

According to a Comet study, the state with the highest proportion of millennials living at home is New Jersey, where 12.5% of millennials live at home. A recent study by student loan refinancing firm Comet found the states with the highest proportions of millennials living at home. States like North and South Dakota had the lowest proportion of millennials living at home. That's thanks to the low cost of living in those states, Mercurio said. A quick note on the data for this piece: Comet provided the numbers of millennials living at home per 10,000.

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