Aggressive resellers are ransacking Goodwill bins and vintage stores. Their finds sell for big money. The resale boom has turned thrift stores into a $79 billion battle, as resellers hunt for underpriced items to flip online for a big profit.

This story about resellers is FUN and LIGHT and at a moment when nothing else is I would suggest people give it a read. www.businessinsider.com/resellers-se...

Have you had an experience good, bad, or ugly with an online course? Tell me about it for a Business Insider story. Email me at estewart@insider.com or message me.

Summer travel is getting more expensive and chaotic. More Americans are staying home. High oil prices and travel uncertainty are stoking anxiety and jeopardizing summer vacation plans. More Americans are opting to stay at home.

with ~ everything ~ going on right now at the airports, with gas prices, etc., might i suggest ... staying home www.businessinsider.com/summer-trave...

... Ladies, are you feeling, um, a little less than satisfied with your husband or partner's spending habits? Namely, that they're maybe not so great at searching for deals or doing price comparison? Tell me about it for a Business Insider story! Email me at estewart@insider.com.

Does the state of, you know, everything have you rethinking travel plans? Worried about gas prices, airline prices, or instability and safety in various parts of the world? Talk to me for a Business Insider story! Email me at estewart@insider.com.

Steak 'n Shake bet big on RFK's MAHA movement. It's paying off. Steak 'n Shake embraced RFK Jr.'s MAHA food philosophy — from beef tallow fries to bitcoin payments. The strategy appears to be boosting sales.

if you have wondered what the deal is with steak 'n shake given that every headline you have probably seen about it has something to do with MAHA or tesla or bitcoin, this story is for you www.businessinsider.com/steak-n-shak...

People are using Ozempic to drink less. We already have FDA-approved drugs for that. People are using GLP-1s to cut back on alcohol use disorder, but there are already three FDA-approved drugs: naltrexone, acamprosate, and disulfiram.

Yes, GLP-1s might help reduce drinking, but we actually already have three FDA-approved medications to treat alcoholism, they're just widely unknown and under prescribed. Once again ... we truly would not treat any other disease the way we do addiction. www.businessinsider.com/alcoholism-d...

I followed RFK Jr.'s new food rules for a week on a $ 15-a-day budget. It wasn't as easy as promised. The White House and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have a new protein-forard food pyramid that they say you can follow cheaply. I tried it out.

while everybody was yelling about doordash, i was doing the new rfk food pyramid diet on a budget for a week. it was not hard but it was not good and super-strict regimens are not how people eat. (also, i know i am a bad cook and a weird eater. it's fine.) www.businessinsider.com/rfk-jr-food-...

Millennial women! Do you have a lot of feelings about jeans? Not sure what are the right ones? You don't want to look old, but also you don't want to look like you're trying to look young? Tell me about it for a Business Insider story! Email me at estewart@insider.com.

Do you have a fun story about an experience at an airport bar? Tell me about it for a @businessinsider.com story. Message me or email me at estewart@insider.com. Bad stories allowed too obviously, going for interesting here!

Plenty of CFPB news in the past year. I get it if people have lost the plot. But @reporterev.bsky.social's scoop today about the “slashing” of CFPB bank exams, which is *arguably the biggest thing the agency does,* is worth paying attention to 🧵
bit.ly/4k7X3uN1/8

indeed indeed

Americans are drinking less. That's killing Dry January. Americans are drinking less alcohol overall, so they don't feel the need to take an entire month off for Dry January. Welcome to Wet Winter.

Americans are drinking less and it's kinda killing Dry January www.businessinsider.com/dry-january-...

if kicking a car got you the death penalty let me say my dad would have been executed like 15 times in the '90s

Trump is scrambling to sell an affordability agenda — and borrowing ideas from an unlikely place Trump is rolling out a slew of new ideas focused on "affordability." A lot of them sound like proposals from Zohran Mamdani or Bernie Sanders.

Trump had one theory of the case on the economy and it isn't entirely working out so he's kind of borrowing from Bernie Sanders, Liz Warren, and Zohran Mamdani to figure out some next steps www.businessinsider.com/trump-afford...

The admin is talking affordability—but hasn’t shown it’s serious about the policy.

You can’t tackle credit card debt while kneecapping the CFPB, fix housing while blocking new supply, or claim industrial policy if it’s purely political.

Our @bradlipton.bsky.social w/ @emilystewart.bsky.social ⬇️

I've always been a cruise hater. I took one anyway and it was…fine? I've always been skeptical of cruises, but my boyfriend won a free one playing Tetris. I didn't love it, but I didn't hate it, either. It just...was.

My boyfriend won an allegedly free cruise by playing Tetris on the subway (???) so we did it and then I wrote about it. What I am saying is you should click at least to read the opening.
www.businessinsider.com/cruise-hater...

Are you skipping out on Dry January this year or changing your approach to it? Talk to me about it for a story! Email me at estewart@insider.com or message me.

How LinkedIn became the ultimate date screening tool LinkedIn is supposed to be a place to find a job. But people are using the social media app to look up exes and screen potential romantic interests.

Everything is terrible but I wrote about people snooping their exes on LinkedIn and getting ratted out and it's mainly just funny and embarrassing www.businessinsider.com/linkedin-lov...

America's economy is getting swallowed up by middlemen — and it's driving people crazy The real winners in today's economy are the middlemen — rich intermediary companies like Walmart, Airbnb, and Lyft that connect buyers and sellers.

In which @emilystewart.bsky.social explains all things middlemen, aka N-sided marketplaces

www.businessinsider.com/middlemen-su...

America's economy is getting swallowed up by middlemen — and it's driving people crazy The real winners in today's economy are the middlemen — rich intermediary companies like Walmart, Airbnb, and Lyft that connect buyers and sellers.

A nice article from @emilystewart.bsky.social about the middleman economy.

www.businessinsider.com/middlemen-su...

I'm working on a story for Business Insider on RTO mandates gone wrong ... companies call people back and there isn't enough seating, Wifi doesn't work, etc. If you've dealt with this or are dealing with it now and would want to chat about it, email me at estewart@insider.com.

Boomers are drowning in their millennial kids' junk. They've had enough. Millennials and Gen Zers are storing their stuff at their baby boomer parents' homes because it won't fit in their own. The parents are sick of it

millennials are using their parents' houses as storage units and sorry friends but a lot of us are guilty of this! www.businessinsider.com/millennials-...

Listen to December 1, 2025 on Hark A playlist of podcast moments

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- Why Trump's attack on war hero Mark Kelly will backfire @radiofreetom.bsky.social
- The hidden danger of 'Buy Now, Pay Later' @emilystewart.bsky.social
- Should you eat like a caveman? @sciencevs.bsky.social

Trump is tossing American college students study abroad trips into chaos: Higher costs, more politics, fewer Aperol spritzes Thanks to the Trump administration, American students going abroad are facing higher tuition, more awkward conversations, and fewer fun drinks.

study abroad in the the trump era is quite the conundrum www.businessinsider.com/american-col...

Why millennials don't feel richer than boomers — even though they are Rich millennials are doing OK, but they feel terrible about their finances and the economy. They're comparing themselves to peers and boomer parents.

My personal theory of the vibecession remains that a not insignificant part of the problem is that normally very comfortable people are feeling slightly uncomfortable and it's throwing everybody off www.businessinsider.com/millennial-e...

I'm working on a story for @BusinessInsider about adults using their older parents' homes as storage units — millennials and Gen Xers whose stuff is piled up in their parents' basements and the conflict arising from there. If you'd like to chat, email me at estewart@insider.com.

De-Cluttering Legacies | The Brian Lehrer Show | WNYC Emily Stewart, senior correspondent at Business Insider, talks about navigating issues around what to do with all the 'stuff' that boomer parents will be leaving their millennial kids.

@emilystewart.bsky.social, senior correspondent at Business Insider, talks about navigating issues around what to do with all the 'stuff' that boomer parents will be leaving their millennial kids: www.wnyc.org/story/declut...