Alana Semuels

A decade ago, someone knocking on your door to sell you solar panels would have been selling you solar panels. Now, they are probably selling you a financial product—likely a lease or a loan. Mary Ann Jones, 83, didn’t realize this had happened to her until she received a call last year from GoodLeap, a financial technology company, saying she owed $52,564.28 for a solar panel loan that expires when she’s 106 [snip]showed up at her house on the outskirts of Fresno, Calif., pushing what he claimed was a government program affiliated with her utility to get her free solar panels.

It's not a fun time to try and buy a house. Mortgage rates have slipped since last fall, but remain significantly higher than they've been for more than a decade.

M y credit card is a mangled thing. Its blue plastic backing is peeling so much that it doesn't work in swipe machines; it looks like a dog chewed it up and spat it out.

T he good news about inflation in recent months is that it's slowing, but that probably doesn't matter much to the American consumer; slowing inflation still means that prices are rising.

The rise of frictionless payments makes it easy to keep buying-whether we can afford to or not Alana Semuels

V enessa Dikousman thought she'd adequately checked to make sure the man calling her cell phone in November 2023 wasn't a scammer.

M y house is extremely ugly. It looks like someone built an evangelical mega-church in a residential neighborhood and then tried to turn it into a single-family home by putting in cheap windows and scallop vinyl shingles.

L eena Nair was a surprising pick for CEO of Chanel in 2021. She'd long run the human resources department at Unilever but had never actually helmed a company.

W hen David Risher took over as CEO of Lyft about a year ago, the company was losing market share and struggling with morale.

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