Economics

Growing one of northern Michigan's beloved fruits has become the pits, growers say.

The Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement reports the official poverty rate in 2021 was 11.6%, not statistically different from 2020.

Twice as many parents will be buying used school supplies as did last year, reports Morning Consult.

But refinery operations are returning to normal and demand usually tapers off in August.

International travel is so back.

How early is too early? The 4th of July was just a few weeks ago, yet some Iowa grocery stores are already offering spooky Halloween decorations and big bags of trick-or-treat candy. Professor Peggy Stover, who directs the University of Iowa’s Marketing Institute and spent 25 years in the grocery industry, says stores are looking […]

Kraft Heinz CEO said that despite declining volume and market-share losses, he doesn't believe prices were raised too much.

Today's practice of gas prices that end in 9/10th of a cent began in the 1930s.

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Learn which jobs are impacted by the SAG-AFTRA strike, which movies and TV shows have shut down and where actors can get help.

Americans have $23 billion they haven’t spent yet — nearly 1 in 2 people report having unused gift cards.

After years of cost overruns and delays, the new reactor is finally supplying carbon-free electricity.

Government incentives and deregulation have brought digital nomads, Airbnbs and ‘golden visas’ – but steep housing costs for locals

A quick update on an odd market dynamic that we spotlighted a couple of days ago ... median home prices for existing homes have officially surpassed that of new homes, Matt writes.

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“ngl it's hard to go back to a single screen once you've used a quad monitor setup”

“I need this! But I’m lazy to make my own so Amazon to the rescue!!”

“Cashier or self checkout is not the argument here, the argument is I’ll use either but if there’s only one cashier and no baggers then would I prefer to have 5 lanes of self checkout while that cashier watches those? Yes”

This is quite an anomaly for residential real estate.

Beanie Babies had astronomical appreciation estimates that sparked a collecting frenzy in the ’90s.

India recently banned the export of non-Basmati rice. What are the economics of export bans? An export ban will tend to decrease the world supply thereby raising world prices but some of the previously exported goods will flow to the domestic market reducing domestic prices, which is the typical reason for an export bans. FT: […]

Got milk? Demand for milk is down this year, causing an oversupply for farmers.

Everybody loves to recall the Beanie Baby craze in the late 1990s. It's the perfect reference point for bubbles like Pokemon cards and NFTs, and they're a good story about monopolistic competition. But these stories rarely remind us of the massive smuggling problem that created

UPS workers might not strike after getting major concessions from their employer.

At National Portrait Gallery- seeing people have made same false claims about free trade for a long time. #teachecon pic.twitter.com/UiTEDxviMR— Matthew Rousu (@MatthewRousu) July 23, 2023

Dozens of drugs made by Pfizer Inc. may be more difficult for hospitals to purchase because they were manufactured at the company’s North Carolina plant that was damaged by a tornado last week.