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While the COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected the bottom line of a variety of industries, the subscription-based business model has remained popular and profitable as shopping habits have changed."Obviously you've had people who in the past would have just worked 9 to 5, come home to eat…

Haunted houses have a new fear factor this season that is spooking operators just as much as patrons. As it does, the COVID-19 pandemic has dampened the Halloween spirit in Michigan, home to some 100 haunts and often dubbed the Halloween capital of the Midwest. At least a dozen major attractions…

A Michigan House committee passed a bill Thursday that would prevent electric vehicle manufacturers beyond Tesla from selling directly to consumers in the state, setting up a battle between franchised dealerships and EV startups over the direct-sales model. Michigan's House Bill 6233, which…

As if it hasn't been hard enough recruiting work forces over the past couple of years, with booming sales and low unemployment, before the coronavirus pandemic. Now, as business slowly creeps back to normal, automotive companies face a new challenge: Amazon. The online marketplace plans to…

FT Trade Secrets writer Aime Williams goes on a mission to find toilet roll. The coronavirus outbreak has emptied supermarket shelves. But why can't manufacturers just divert the unused office paper?

Lockdowns put the brakes on production in Asia while boosting bicycle demand for use in exercise and commuting.

Dumbbells and free weights have been hard to find amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but you can still buy them online at Amazon, Walmart, and more.

The COVID-19 pandemic shook the lodging industry particularly hard, and turned many hotel businesses upside down. But, like a shaken snow globe, the...

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Weekly tallies of jobless claims were not meant to be treated as an economic indicator. The pandemic has exposed the shortcomings of doing so.

The trend is on track to exacerbate dramatic wealth and income gaps in the U.S., where divides are already wider than any other nation in the G-7.

I recently spent some time on Twitter discussing the monetary wonders of Starbucks. In this post I'll bring a bunch of tweets together i...

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Worries of a K-shaped recovery are growing in the alphabet-obsessed economics profession. That would entail continued growth, but split sharply between industries and economic groups.

Speculative frenzies happen now and then -- and they can seriously hurt your financial health.

Cutting out commutes have also reduced CO2 emissions.

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Note: For more activities and tips that you can use while you are teaching remotely, be sure to check out the Teaching Remotely section of the Teacher Toolkit.  ---------------- The Bean Game stands out as a definite teacher and student favorite. It has a simple set-up, it's student-centered and applies core budgeting principles such as wants vs. needs and adjusting for financial hardships. Knowing that many of you are now teaching remotely, we developed a Bean Game virtual map where students make their choices on the map with numbers instead of beans.

There’s a saying in neuroscience: “Don’t ask the person, ask the brain!” What does this mean in practice? And how does it affect the way we shop? Colin Camerer, a behavioral economist at the

What motivates experts to contribute to Wikipedia? Yan Chen, an economics professor at University of Michigan, ran a field experiment to find out.Wikipedia is one of the most-visited sites in the

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As FCA US LLC extends offers to more than a thousand Detroiters, employment agency Detroit at Work's job pipeline model is getting put to the test.The automaker committed to consider Detroit residents first for many of the nearly 5,000 jobs it plans to add at two east-side plants as part of its…

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