Economics

Supply chain delays are always challenging. But during the holidays, slow shipping can make or break a company's bottom line. Today on the show, a toy company that makes Tonka trucks musters a shipment tracking war room.

According to the WEF, the retirement savings gap is growing at $28 billion every 24 hours - and it could be the 'financial equivalent of climate change'.

When economists see holiday gifts, they see waste: sweaters that never get worn; books that never get read. Many recommend cash or no gift at all. Economist Tim Harford proposes a different solution in this encore episode from 2019.

Until we see Powell in a pair of Nike Zooms, we can safely assume the economists mean something else

Canadian big business is so low-tech, and so uninterested in productivity growth, that Canadian competitiveness suffers as a result.

Like their loyal customers, Detroit's iconic potato chip maker Better Made Snack Foods Inc. is feeling the squeeze of inflated food prices. As a result of supply chain disruptions and shortages in key raw materials, the cost of a bag of Better Made barbecue flavored potato chips is going up. …

Detroit is truly the comeback city. From booming development and a robust entrepreneurial ecosystem to efforts to reduce crime and blight, the city’s revitalization is a shining example for metropolitan communities across the country. But there is still more work to do. As his first term nears completion, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan will reflect on the progress being made in the city and ongoing collaboration needed to ensure all of its citizens benefit from Detroit’s rebirth. Interviewer: Paul W. Smith, Host, WJR NewsTalk 760 AM

“So it looks like Unicorn founders aren’t actually mainly dropouts like y’all said”

Congressional Democrats voted to raise the debt ceiling, avoiding the risk of default with only hours to spare.

Part of Detroit’s history of racial discrimination is comprised on housing discrimination, which in turn contributed to job discrimination, interpersonal racism, and continued racial inequity…

Through a guided discussion and review of data, students learn that the practice of racial segregation concentrated African Americans in the lowest-graded, or redlined, neighborhoods.

This issue explains how residents in redlined neighborhoods could not afford to become homeowners and accumulate wealth at the rates other groups did.

Proposals that base their remedies primarily on formerly redlined areas do not redress the main racial group that was explicitly targeted.

It turns out that big surpluses have been almost universal across states.

Poultry company executives are indicted on antitrust charges after years of federal investigations into price-fixing on America’s most ubiquitous protein.

From Partridges in Pear Trees to Drummers Drumming...check out how much the quirky gifts from “The Twelve Days of Christmas” cost this year!

COVID-19 hit the global economy hard, but some companies thrived amidst the chaos. Here are the top 100 most valuable brands of 2021.

At-home test kits have been hard to find in my cities across the United States. When they are in stock, their prices seem higher than what they should. One possible explanation comes in the form of monopoly power from the largest producer of the kits: Abbott Labratories.

Inflation accelerated at its fastest pace since 1982 in November, the Labor Department said Friday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A warehouse worker in Tennessee is running up against price increases that far exceed her modest pay raise. The owner of a pastry business in Massachusetts has had to reduce his product offerings and personally absorb higher costs.

Musk said in an interview that more social spending would just add to the already sky-high federal deficit.

The Federal Reserve could decide to speed up the end of its bond buying and signal that it expects to start hiking interest rates in 2022.

Answer: $346 Questions: Why do you think insurance companies raise a driver’s premium after they get a tlcket for texting while driving? What strategies do you use in order to avoid this temptation while driving? Click here for the ready-to-go slides for this Question of the Day that you can use in your classroom. Behind the numbers (from Carinsurance.com):  A driver texting ticket can increase your rates by an average of 23 percent ($346 yearly), a rate analysis by CarInsurance.com shows.