Emily Stewart

New York

Senior Correspondent at Business Insider

I write things for @BusinessInsider. Used to be at @voxdotcom. Always interested in scams. [email protected]

Articles

Trump Is Scrambling the Fight to Be America's Top-Selling Beer

4 days ago | businessinsider.com | Bob Bryan |Emily Stewart |Henry Blodget

Bud Light was the king of beers for a long time in the United States. Sure, its sibling brand, Budweiser, had the formal title, but based on sales, the lighter lager was on top for decades. A couple of years ago, in the face of a cultural firestorm and changing consumer tastes, Bug Light lost its crown. Mexican-made Modelo took its place as the top-selling beer in America in retail, becoming the new rey of beers, if you will.
Rich People Power the Economy, Stopping Recession, Stock Market Crash.

1 week ago | businessinsider.com | Bob Bryan |Emily Stewart |Henry Blodget

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . Money may not buy happiness, but it does buy stuff. And buying stuff is at the heart of our consumer-driven economic engine. Lately, it's wealthier people, in particular, who have been keeping that engine running.
Trump's War on Knowledge Workers: Lawyers, Consultants, Colleges

1 week ago | businessinsider.com | Bob Bryan |Emily Stewart |Henry Blodget

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . It is not a good time to be a fancy lawyer in America right now. Or an academic, a journalist, a corporate consultant, a government bureaucrat, or a scientist. President Donald Trump has declared war on America's office elite. It's the White House vs. the eggheads. The president has set out to make the American workforce "manly" again.
Trump's Tariffs Mean Americans Need to Learn How to Fix Things Again

2 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Bob Bryan |Emily Stewart |Henry Blodget

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . I think a lot about what will happen when my TV breaks. I'm not sure how old it is — I'm not its first home — but I figure it's got at least eight years on it. The remote hasn't worked since the pandemic. Whenever the TV does go kaput, I know I should try to fix it. I also know I won't.
Gen Z Is Taking It Slow on Jobs, Homes, Alcohol, Driving, Marriage

2 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Bob Bryan |Emily Stewart |Henry Blodget

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . Elise Monsanto plans to get around to some of the "grown-up" milestones that generally mark early adulthood; she's just not in a rush. She didn't get her driver's license until she was 20. She and her friends still haven't had their first boyfriends. Now, at 22, she doesn't drink, though she's sure at some point she will.
Frozen Pizza Sales Are a Sign of a Recession or a Stock Market Crash

3 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Bob Bryan |Emily Stewart |Henry Blodget

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . Are you craving a frozen pizza lately? You're not alone. Maybe it's because the weather's warmer, maybe you're jonesing for a lazy-day treat, or maybe it's because the stock market's down and tariffs are throwing everything into chaos.
President Trump is pushing for the Great American Manufacturing Revival. Americans aren't interested.

3 weeks ago | businessinsider.nl | Emily Stewart |Dan DeFrancesco |Grace Lett |Amanda Yen

Welcome back to our Sunday edition, where we round up some of our top stories and take you inside our newsroom. Interested in a career pivot? A teacher with no tech experience shared the four résumé tweaks that helped him land a gig at Google. On the agenda today: But first: Back to the factory? If this was forwarded to you, sign up here. Download Business Insider's app President Trump is pushing for a return to factory jobs. By and large, Americans don't want them.
Why Trump Tariffs Won't Bring Back "Masculine" Manufacturing Jobs

4 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Emily Stewart

Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link The theory behind President Donald Trump's massive wave of tariffs is that they're a way to usher in a renaissance in American manufacturing. The idea is to make America the 1950s again, labor-wise. The Industrial Revolution brought American workers from rural farms to urban factories.
Trump's Tariffs Could Lead to Wild Price Increases, Cost Swings

1 month ago | businessinsider.com | Bob Bryan |Emily Stewart |Henry Blodget

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . If you feel like you have no idea what anything's supposed to cost anymore, you're not alone. The pandemic and subsequent bout of inflation sent prices all over the place, and now we're facing down whatever is going on with tariffs at any given moment. Unfortunately, our collective state of sticker "Huh?" is likely to get worse.
Cornered and confronted: American tourists are facing a scary backlash

1 month ago | businessinsider.com | Bob Bryan |Emily Stewart |Henry Blodget

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . Jen Donahue can't help but wonder whether a fellow skier took a bit of subtle revenge on her during a recent trip to Canada. Donahue and her husband, who are from California, took a trip up to Whistler, British Columbia, in March to enjoy the slopes. On their very first gondola ride up the mountain, they were seated next to a Canadian couple.