One major growth sector is retail advertising, when a brand pays retailers like Amazon or Walmart to highlight their products to that retailer’s customers. It’s expected to grow to over $190 billion in 2026.
Now that the government has stopped minting pennies, retailers and restaurants that tend to do a lot of cash business want the federal government to come up with a standard for rounding.
The latest survey from the National Federation of Independent Business shows that even with tariffs and inflation woes, small business owners are feeling good.
When analysts want to know how Americans are feeling about the economy, they look to consumer surveys from The Conference Board and the University of Michigan. But they each paint a slightly different picture of people under age 35.
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New research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland finds that earning a college degree can still help you keep a job and get higher wages, but it’s less of an advantage than it used to be.
