Allison Morrow - Senior Writer, CNN Business
Allison Morrow
Senior Writer, CNN Business
Allison Morrow is a Senior Writer for CNN Business, covering a range of topics including financial markets and the US economy. She is also the lead writer and founder of the CNN Business Nightcap newsletter.
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The ‘halving’ — bitcoin bros’ World Cup — is here
Apr 22, 2024
Put simply, the halving is an automatic 50% reduction in the number of bitcoin entering circulation. That should, in theory, push the value of bitcoin higher.
Student debt is haunting Americans from graduation to retirement
Apr 17, 2024
Going to college is supposed to be the path to a more prosperous life. But the cost of getting a degree has become a financial albatross, weighing down borrowers from the day they graduate to the day they retire — if retirement is even possible.
Why Corporate America is keeping quiet on abortion
Apr 16, 2024
Eight years ago, when North Carolina tried regulate how transgender people use public bathrooms, Corporate America revolted.
Is student debt derailing your life plans? Share your story
Apr 13, 2024
The Biden administration said Friday that it is using existing student loan forgiveness programs to cancel another round of student debt, totaling $7.4 billion for 277,000 borrowers.
Boeing CEO’s penchant for cost-cutting doesn’t apply to his trips on the company jet
Apr 12, 2024
When it comes to building planes, Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun is all about streamlining costs. An accountant by training, Calhoun has prioritized fiscal discipline over his four years at the helm, tightening the belt to free up cash flow and put the company on better financial footing.
‘I cannot afford to live’: Gen Z is full of financial angst despite inheriting a golden job market
Apr 10, 2024
Gen Z is coming into the workforce and — in the grand tradition of what Millennials cringe-ily called “adulting” — they’re complaining about how much easier older generations have had it financially.
Big Tech’s grip on social media is a growing problem
Apr 9, 2024
A single trillion-dollar company controls Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp. That concentration of digital ownership can create real-world harm, as a recent censorship dispute with Meta lays bare.
Meta is accused of censoring a non-profit newspaper and an independent journalist who criticized the company
Apr 5, 2024
Meta blocked a newspaper’s critical report about it on Facebook and its other social sites for hours, sparking a backlash that intensified after the company appeared to subsequently block links to the website of an independent journalist who republished the report.
Why you can, and should, ignore that 9pm email from your boss
Apr 5, 2024
Back in 2017, when France rolled it out the world’s first “right to disconnect” law — making it illegal for the boss to email workers after hours — Americans responded the way we always do when the French do something cool: Shake our heads at how soft they are while secretly wishing we could do the same thing. (See also: drinking wine at lunch, retiring at 62, national health care.)
Disney trounces activist shareholders in a major win for Bob Iger
Apr 3, 2024
Disney won a hard-fought proxy battle against a group of activist investors who sought to secure seats on the company’s board of directors. The shareholder vote served as a legacy-defining victory for CEO Bob Iger.
Why ‘dynamic’ pricing feels like such a scam
Apr 3, 2024
Your Uber costs more at 5 pm on a Tuesday than it does at 8 pm. Buying a plane ticket the day before you fly is more expensive than buying it six months early. These are surge pricing tactics so ingrained in our consumer experience, we hardly notice or care. It’s just the way things are.
How Trump managed to lose $1 billion in net worth in a single day
Apr 2, 2024
Remember in the Road Runner cartoon, how Wile E. Coyote would always sprint off the edge of a cliff, and only fall after he glances down to find the ground no longer beneath his feet?
Trump Media is a risky bet, whether you love it or hate it
Mar 29, 2024
Trump Media’s trading debut this week gave Donald Trump’s biggest fans a way to show their support with their wallets, albeit in a seriously risky way that few financial advisers would endorse.
4 takeaways from Sam Bankman-Fried’s sentencing
Mar 28, 2024
Sam Bankman-Fried on Thursday was sentenced to 25 years in prison, a year and a half after his crypto startup, FTX, imploded practically overnight and set off a massive a federal investigation.
Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in federal prison
Mar 28, 2024
Sam Bankman-Fried has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for defrauding customers and investors in his failed crypto exchange FTX, a Manhattan court ruled Thursday.
Sam Bankman-Fried faces sentencing this week. Here’s what to expect
Mar 27, 2024
Almost five months after he was found guilty of committing one of the largest white-collar crimes in history, Sam Bankman-Fried is set to return to Manhattan federal court this week for sentencing that could land him in prison for the next half-century.
About
Allison Morrow is a Senior Writer for CNN Business, covering a range of topics including financial markets and the US economy. She is also the lead writer and founder of the CNN Business Nightcap newsletter.
Morrow joined CNN in 2016 as a Senior Producer for Social Publishing. Before that, she was a news editor at The Wall Street Journal, where she specialized in coverage of the Asia-Pacific region, based in Hong Kong and New York.
Morrow holds a Bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She lives in Brooklyn.
