Economics

The result has been an unexpected productivity boom, which helps explain a great economic mystery: How has the world’s largest economy managed to remain so healthy, with brisk growth and low unempl…

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How much the Tooth Fairy gives for a lost tooth in 2024 has dropped with cooling inflation.

Choice of major, internships and getting the right first job after graduation are critical to career paths, new data show.

Intuitive Machines’s Odysseus lander is the first US spacecraft to land on the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972.

STERLING HEIGHTS — During a Jan. 30 strategic planning session, Sterling Heights city officials were invited to “Think Sterling Green” in fresh new ways, including a plan to start reforesting the city’s tree canopy.

Interviews with people in remote communities challenge widely held perception that money buys happiness

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Too few people donate their organs, dead or alive. How can we make it easier to donate, but avoid the abuses that some fear from cash payments?

Of the $61 billion earmarked for Ukraine, 64% would flow back to US defense contractors that make the weapons.

A combined Capital One and Discover would create the No. 1 US credit card company by loan volume.

American Airlines Group Inc. is raising the cost to check bags, just as an annual report shows the amount airlines collected from such fees last year grew to an estimated $33.3 billion.

US politicians are mad about investors buying up farmland, but they are even madder at the foreign investors doing it.

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Jeff Bezos has been unloading Amazon shares at a fast clip, dumping nearly 36 million shares for about $6 billion. Here's why.

Some economists believe the 2022 and 2023 jump in immigration helped stave off a recession in the US.

prices for electrical goods and appliances in the 1980's examples from The People History Site

Bezos has said he plans to offload about 50 million Amazon shares in total over the next year, worth ~$8.7 billion currently.

Question of the Day for teachers and students: What percent of high school students are interested in pursuing a career in a trade?

East/West Germany's phantom bordersMore below pic.twitter.com/mSe9fh668Y— Tomas Pueyo (@tomaspueyo) February 14, 2024

The stuffed animal industry is Beanie Babies mania-level hot right now, especially for adults.

Inflation isn't entirely tamed and most stuff ain't cheap.

On a night when one minute of airtime costs $14m, artists get 12 whole minutes. For free.

A man entered Magic Kingdom recently using a 1978 ticket that cost $8 at the time

Active learning today in Prin Macro: Student volunteers had to distribute 100 donuts to represent the share of household income by quintiles in the US. Lots of donuts piled on that highest quintile! H/T @equineomics for the idea. pic.twitter.com/32a3yk2rpA— Erin Yetter (@DrErinYetter) February 12, 2024

No one was inside a Waymo car as it was destroyed.

The American pork industry has become so efficient that demand can’t keep up with supply. In search of solutions, farmers and processors are looking at everything from new overseas markets to fattier, tastier pigs.

In the country of 274 million, millennials and Gen Z voters make up 56.5% of the electorate — and campaigning on social media is heating up.

Cocoa prices are surging so high that even the biggest chocolate makers are struggling to stay profitable. That doesn’t portend well for your wallet this Valentine’s Day.

Score isn’t purely a stunt—people really are more likely to start serious relationships if they have high credit scores.