Tag: business

People like to feel pretty. Over the past ten years Americans have spent more than $500bn on beauty products. By 2024 the Chinese are expected to splurge more than $100bn ...

Topline The unemployment rate unexpectedly rose last month as the economy added another 315,000 jobs—signaling the labor market, which has remained one of the economy’s strongest pillars during the pandemic ...

Mankind must rely on oil and gas “in the short term” or “civilization will crumble,” Elon Musk told reporters Monday at an energy conference in Norway—a striking statement from the ...

Topline Though they had recently cooled, fears of an impending recession once again escalated Friday after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell warned economic growth will suffer as the central bank ...

Recession talk is everywhere, especially in the housing sector, as recent data on weaker housing starts and sales compounded by higher mortgage rates signal a slowdown.But that doesn’t necessarily mean ...

The most important step in curbing climate change is to stop burning fossil fuels. But as the economy slowly pivots in that direction, it might be worthwhile to catch the ...

U.S. retail sales were unexpectedly unchanged in July as falling gasoline prices weighed on receipts at service stations, but consumer spending appeared to pick up at the start of the ...

I spent years being utterly exhausted, surviving on caffeine and catnaps. I made a lot of assumptions about why I was tired:I was stressed. Running my own business, going through a ...

To american executives, Rob Portman is the ideal senator. Smart, reasonable and experienced, he served as the top trade representative and budget director for George W. Bush, the Republican president ...

The Ukraine war has supercharged energy costs around the world, sending inflation soaring in virtually every major economy. But a specific convergence of crises this summer means Germany might be ...