The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston had an interesting piece last month about the resilience of consumer spending, which is ~70% of GDP in the US. They looked at credit card spending data for low, ...

In 1936, the psychologist Kurt Lewin proposed a deceptively simple idea: Behavior is a function of the person and their environment. He even gave it an equation: B = f(P, E). Your actions are shaped ...

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A fresh inflation reading a day earlier showed an uptick in price increases. Consumer sentiment dampened in September, extending a decline from the previous month as government data showed a hiring ...

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Wealthy consumers continue to account for a growing share of US consumer spending, highlighting the lopsided strength of the economy as a slowdown in hiring and wariness among other income cohorts ...

Sept 12 (Reuters) - U.S. consumer sentiment fell for a second straight month in September as consumers saw rising risks to business conditions, the labor market and inflation. The University of ...

Note: The data in this table are nominal growth rates without deducting price factors. Total retail sales of consumer goods refers to the revenue of enterprises (units and self-employed individuals) ...

In a meeting with bishops appointed in the last year, Pope Leo XIV exhorted them to address issues related to inappropriate behavior on the part of the clergy: “They can’t be put away in a drawer.” At ...

Few areas are more important than reliability, particularly in today's economic climate. As of July 2025, the average price to purchase a brand-new car in the U.S. was $48,699, akin to the sort of ...

Yaritza Martinez is charged in connection with simple assault following the incident which happened on Sept. 5 Providence Police Department Yaritza Martinez, a behavior interventionalist at Lillian ...

"No reasonable jury could find in favor of Amazon when provided with this evidence," U.S. District Judge John H. Chun of the Western District of Washington wrote in his decision granting summary ...