Tag: consumer spending
Economic lookahead: As we ring in 2024, can the US economy...
Economic lookahead: As we ring in 2024, can the US economy continue to avoid a recession?
Good things...
Americans are tiptoeing out of economic turmoil this holiday shopping season
Ayalla A. Ruvio, Michigan State University and Forrest Morgeson, Michigan State University
With two big shopping days on the...
Retailers may see more red after Black Friday as consumers say...
Ayalla A. Ruvio, Michigan State University and Forrest Morgeson, Michigan State University
Retailers are gearing up for another blockbuster...
A quarter of US parents are unmarried – and that changes...
Orestes 'Pat' Hastings, Colorado State University and Daniel Schneider, University of California, Berkeley
Family structure in America is sharply divided by class and race.
While 84%...
Recent stock market sell-off foreshadows a new Great Recession
Steven Pressman, Colorado State University and Robert H. Scott III, Monmouth University
In early February, concerns about inflation and rising interest rates sent global financial...
Will a federal government shutdown damage the US economy?
Scott R. Baker, Northwestern University
The federal government shut down for the first time in a little more than four years after Republicans and Democrats...
Have reports of Black Friday’s death been greatly exaggerated?
Jay L. Zagorsky, The Ohio State University
Black Friday is hyped as one of the biggest in-store shopping days of the year, with stores trumpeting...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
