Photo Illustration by Zak Bickel/The New York Times; Photographs via Getty; Unsplash Tariffs are up. Tariffs are down. Shipping is frozen. Shipping is back on. In...
The U.S. consumer has seemed unstoppable in recent years, spending throughout soaring inflation and the highest borrowing costs in decades. That resilience helped to keep at...
Consumers, worried about the economy, are pulling back on their spending, and that anxiety is translating into lower sales and profits for some of the country’s...
There are not many certainties in the world of money, but this traditionally has been one of them: When life turns scary, people take refuge in...
Charlene and Phil Willingham had been thinking for a while about replacing the 20-year-old appliances in their kitchen, but with the sudden prospect of rising costs,...
It’s Will Smith announcing a new album. It’s “Mamma Mia!” returning to Broadway. It’s the uptick in law school applications. And it’s absolutely spring breaking in...
The retail industry’s report card for the critical holiday shopping season is in. American shoppers surprised analysts, economists and even retail executives by spending more than...
WASHINGTON (7News) — Security company SafeWise has just released its annual theft report, just in time for the busy holiday shopping season. While porch piracy may...