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Matt Weinberger/Business Insider Some Las Vegas restaurants accept payment in bitcoin, so I decided to try to buy bitcoin from a casino's bitcoin ATM. I lost all my money. Considering the exorbitant bitcoin ATM fee, I ha...

In the 20th century, General Motors outcompeted Ford. Ford was the early innovator, but GM was able to improve on Ford's achievements to become dominant. The same dynamic is now playing out between GM and Tesla, with ele...

Food delivery may be all the rage in the restaurant biz, but Olive Garden is more concerned with making sure that the chain's chefs deliver on the four most popular menu items — spaghetti and meatballs, lasagna, chicke...

The last six months of the bull market that ended in 200, the Nasdaq double in value. We all know what happened next.        

Thomson Reuters Bitcoin is everywhere. The cryptocurrency is seemingly in the news every day as investors and businesses try to understand the future of this digital finance. But what is Bitcoin all about? Why is it sudd...

One in two New York City workers may soon be underemployed and in economic pain. The city is now teeming with a vast hidden underclass of underemployed workers who don't show up in official government statistics: More th...

Dear John: With the growth of robotics and artificial intelligence decreasing the need for human workers, I wonder if any of these companies will be smart enough to use some of their now-overseas billions to create a US-...

Let's say last week may have been a Kodak moment for the company, but for all the wrong reasons. The 130-year-old business was at one time the leading photography company in the world, but it incredibly missed its own in...

AP/Bob Leverone At one time, there was nothing more American than sipping on an ice-cold Budweiser or biting into a Whopper. But those days are gone. Times have changed and some of America's most famous brands have falle...

Reuters / Jessica Rinaldi The stock market is likely to end its record streak of positive returns this year, according to Jeffrey Gundlach, the founder of DoubleLine Capital. During his "Just Markets" webcast with invest...

David Ryder/Getty This year's CES was full of products powered by Amazon's Alexa voice assistant. Apple, which usually influences the rest of the tech industry, has fallen far behind in the voice-based computing, and the...

The Bottom Line Richard Turnill, BlackRock's chief investment strategist, notes that a measure of geopolitical risk has spiked to the highest since March 2015. Out of all geopolitical risks, Turnill is most worried about...

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Discounters are collectively opening hundreds of new stores this year. Retailers planning to add new stores include Dollar General, Dollar Tree, Family Dollar, Aldi, Lidl, Five Below, and Hobby Lobby. Meanwhile, mall-bas...

For the past several years I've noticed a trend. Customers are smarter than ever before. They know what it's like to have a good customer service experience. They have learned it from companies like Apple, Amazon and Ame...

A global shift away from oil, gas and coal and towards renewable energy will reshape the international energy market, with the potential for both positive and negative consequences.

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Traveling for free with credit card points seems easy — until you try to do it yourself.        

Republicans, who used to insist that they were the political party of fiscal responsibility and that the deficit was an issue they could use against Democrats, haven't just lost their way, they've completely lost their s...

Many United flight attendants have had enough of the way they say management is treating them.

BI Intelligence This is apreview of a research report from BI Intelligence, Business Insider's premium research service. To learn more about BI Intelligence,click here. The downfall of US brick-and-mortar commerce is ove...

Churchill famously thought Russia was a riddle - but his less famous solution to the riddle still holds. Russian foreign policy is based on self-interest. Simon Wilson explains. The post Deciphering the Russian enigma wa...