One day last year, Julie Gauthier went on Twitter with a confession to make. “Unpopular opinion: I don’t have zoom fatigue and I miss zoom happy hours and game nights,” she wrote. “I feel more isolated now than I did when friends all took time to chat online at the beginning of the pandemic.” Ms. […]
TOKYO — Masatoshi Ito, who built a Japanese retail empire and helped fundamentally change the country’s consumer culture with the introduction there of the American convenience store 7-Eleven, died on Friday. He was 98. Seven & I Holdings, the company he founded, which acquired majority control of 7-Eleven, confirmed the death in a statement on […]
BEIJING — China’s new premier, the country’s No. 2 leader after Xi Jinping, sought on Monday to reinvigorate confidence in the faltering economy, promising that private-sector companies would be treated equally with state-owned ones and that the property rights and other interests of entrepreneurs would be strictly respected. Premier Li Qiang, who took office on […]
Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen said on Sunday that regulators were working throughout the weekend to deal with the fallout from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank but tried to assure the public that the American banking system is “safe and well capitalized.” The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said on Friday that it would take […]
When the cable giant Viacom bought Black Entertainment Television at the turn of the millennium for $2.34 billion, it made Robert L. Johnson, BET’s founder, the first Black billionaire in the United States. Since then, the fortunes of cable TV have waned. Viewers have abandoned traditional television in droves, and Black-owned media organizations in the […]
The pinched cylinders of Russian-built nuclear power plants that dot Europe’s landscape are visible reminders of the crucial role that Russia still plays in the continent’s energy supply. Europe moved with startling speed to wean itself off Russian oil and natural gas in the wake of war in Ukraine. But breaking the longstanding dependency on […]
WASHINGTON — President Biden on Thursday will propose policies aimed at trimming federal budget deficits by at least $2 trillion over the next 10 years as his administration embraces the politics of debt reduction amid a fight with Republicans over raising the nation’s borrowing limit. Mr. Biden’s plans, which will be detailed as part of […]
Walgreens landed at the center of a consumer and political firestorm in recent days, after saying it would not dispense an abortion pill in 21 states where Republican attorneys general have threatened legal action against pharmacies that try to distribute the medication. The company confirmed late last week that it would not distribute mifepristone, the […]
WeWork, the troubled office space company built by the entrepreneur Adam Neumann that has struggled to right itself in recent years, is in talks with investors to restructure its outstanding debt of more than $3 billion and raise more cash. An infusion of cash would most likely give WeWork the hundreds of millions of dollars […]
First: Hearing Bruce Springsteen live in concert last week was fantastic, and I’d buy tickets again. I paid nearly $175 apiece, including fees, last July for semi-nosebleed seats at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Okla., a few hours from where I live. Not bad, I thought at the time. And I got to see Mr. […]