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There's a puzzling split between how consumers overall feel about the economy and how they're acting, how much they are spending overall. Normally spending and feelings go together. Not right now.
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President Trump claimed he "inherited a mess" on the economy from former President Joe Biden.
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The Trump Administration is releasing more information this week on the Trump Accounts that Congress recently passed, which would give eligible kids born from 2025 to 2028 $1,000 from the government.
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The U.S. has the most railroad tracks of any country. And yet we’re not known for our passenger trains. Freight trains, on the other hand, are still widely used. So why can’t passenger trains be more of a thing?
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Hiring cooled this fall, according to delayed figures released by the Labor Department Tuesday. Employers added 64,000 jobs in November as the unemployment rate rose to 4.6%.
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Warner Bros. has a history of disastrous mergers and acquisitions. Can they avoid another bad sequel as Netflix and Paramount battle to buy it?
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Inflation, rising food prices and the high cost of living have been top of mind for consumers all year. But then Olive Garden offers an unlimited pasta meal, or a chain steakhouse restaurant sells a steak dinner with two sides for less than 30 bucks. So, how are chains able to keep prices as low as they do in this economy?
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Projections by economists are all over the place.
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NPR's Rob Schmitz talks with Antonio Ortiz Mena of Georgetown University about Mexico's recently imposed tariffs on Chinese imports and why they matter in relation to Mexican trade with the U.S.
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The payment option is booming among online holiday shoppers this year. But like any form of credit, it comes with drawbacks. Here's how to use BNPL responsibly — and protect yourself from risk.
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After the hurricane in Jamaica, the government had a pot of money to help rebuild. A Catastrophe Bonds payout. We explain how it works and why Cat Bond popularity is on the rise as a response to climate change.
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President Trump says he's sending $12 billion in aid to American farmers who are reeling from global trade disruptions. Those include inflation and Trump's tariffs that are making fertilizer and farm equipment more expensive, and the President's trade war with China which closed a huge market for American soybean exports.