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Retail sales in April were up 0.5% compared to the month before and are up 4.9% from a year ago. We’ll dig into the data.
On this morning’s program: Kevin Warsh’s Senate confirmation, falling rents, and a coffee roaster’s inabiility to claim tariff refunds.
This morning, we take a closer look at the gas tax and how it shows up in our everyday lives.
Household debt ticked up slightly in the first three months of this year, according to the New York Fed. We dig in.
On today’s show: Consumer prices and small business optmism are both up.
The talks were scheduled for six weeks ago but were stalled due to conflict in the Middle East.
War in the Middle East has stunted what looked to be a promising spring housing market.
Only 43% of Americans aged 15 to 34 thought that last year was a good time to find a job, 21 points below those above the age of 55.
Meta was in the news recently for moving to install software that would collect information on employees’ computer use to train AI, but that sort of data harvesting isn’t new.
The ways businesses — and humans — are training artificial intelligence aren’t always easy to spot.
