Donald Trump announced a flurry of executive orders on his first day in office, but for now, at least, he has held off slapping universal tariffs on all imports. Financial markets breathed a sigh of ...

Stephanie Noble was easily influenced. The 38-year-old would turn to her phone to relax and scroll. When she saw influencers exclaim that they couldn’t live without a product, Noble decided she needed ...

the manifest presence of surplus, the magical, definitive negation of scarcity,” French philosopher Jean Baudrillard wrote in his 1970 book, “The Consumer Society.” Since Baudrillard ...

We’ve entered the era of smartphones and eugenics. “They’re eating cats, they’re eating dogs,” Trump had exclaimed ...

Rachel Reeves has refused to rule out announcing further tax rises in the spring, after she delivered a speech designed to ...

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U.S. inflation increased by the most in eight months in December amid robust consumer spending on goods and services, ...

The company, which makes silicon wafers used in semiconductor chips, posted 2024 revenue of 1.41 billion euros ($1.45 billion ...

The company's newly restructured I&AF segment, which provides advisory and technical services to various industries, has been ...

Here is the reality of the Hogan surplus and the handoff to the Moore administration: Hogan left Moore $2.5 billion in the rainy day fund. That is Maryland’s savings account. Additionally ...

Consumer spending will play a large role in the economy in 2025, as it always does. However, the impact has often been overstated. Nonetheless, the strong footing of households—in the aggregate ...