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Amazon just gave a bleak sign about the economy

Thu, 08/01/2024 - 19:09

Tech Insider : Economy, Economy

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy — Amazon CEO Andy Jassy
F. Carter Smith/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Chelsea Jia Feng/BI

Tech, Retail, economy, amazon, Shopping, brian-olsavsky, andy-jassy

Americans aren't spending like they used to, and it's forcing a reckoning for companies from Starbucks to Whirlpool

Wed, 07/31/2024 - 15:00

Tech Insider : Economy, Economy

Shoppers browse at Wayfair's first store in Chicago — Slowing consumer spending is showing up in earnings reports from McDonald's to Mondelez.
Dominick Reuter/Business Insider

economy, consumer-spending, economy, Retail, Food, Inflation, Starbucks

That $5 McDonald's value deal might not be cheap enough

Wed, 07/31/2024 - 14:04

Tech Insider

McDonald's Value Meal — McDonald's is extending its $5 value meal promotion beyond July.
Mario Tama/Getty Images

Retail, fast-food, mc-donalds, Food, Inflation

Wages have outpaced inflation since 2020 but many consumers still feel burdened by prices

Wed, 07/24/2024 - 05:57

Tech Insider : Economy, Economy

A photo shows a woman in a grocery store in the fruit aisle. — Over a third of American workers say they live paycheck to paycheck.
SDI Productions/Getty Images

economy, finance, economy, Inflation, consumer, Wages

Why these 8 things have gotten much more expensive even as inflation cools

Fri, 07/19/2024 - 06:03

Tech Insider : Economy, Economy, Sports

eggs, sports tickets, and uncooked beef — Eggs, sports tickets, and uncooked beef are among eight expense categories in the consumer price index that rose more than 10% over the past year.
Irina Marwan (left), filipefrazao (center), Natalia Gdovskaia (right), via Getty Images

economy, finance, economy, finance, Inflation, Eggs, Beef

Trump doesn't think interest rate cuts should happen before the election

Thu, 07/18/2024 - 05:54

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics

Fed Chair Jerome Powell, former President Donald Trump — Fed Chair Jerome Powell and former President Donald Trump.
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

economy, politics, federal-reserve, donald-trump, jerome-powell, Inflation, interest-rates

Americans want prices to go down, but deflation could spark a wave of unemployment, top economist Paul Krugman says

Wed, 07/17/2024 - 12:18

Tech Insider : Economy, Economy

Inflation has practically wiped out excess savings from the pandemic, according to an analysis from Bespoke Investment. — There's a good reason why prices haven't returned to where they were before the pandemic, according to Nobel laureate Paul Krugman.
Boris Zhitkov/Getty Images

economy, Inflation, economy, Deflation, us-inflation-outlook, Recession, job-market

One likely reason Costco is hiking its membership fee

Sun, 07/14/2024 - 04:41

Tech Insider

Costco shoppers at membership counter — Costco's membership fee increase will help offset deflationary impacts.
Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Retail, Costco, Inflation, Analysis, grocery-prices

Inflation cooled off more than expected in June

Thu, 07/11/2024 - 08:39

Tech Insider : Economy, Economy

A person with a shopping cart at a store — Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

economy, economy, Inflation, CPI, consumer-price-index, core-cpi, BLS

Prices keep changing from day to day, and it's driving Americans nuts

Wed, 07/10/2024 - 05:54

Tech Insider : Economy

Retail sign amidst a pile of clothes, displaying 'Special Prices' with a slot machine effect showing changing prices — Inflation and dynamic pricing are making it so that Americans don't know what anything costs anymore — and it's driving a growing sense of fatigue.
Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI

economy, Discourse, Retail, Prices, Inflation, dynamic-pricing, surge-pricing

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