Latest from Sabri Ben-Achour

• Aug 13, 2025

  Fewer people, businesses are responding to government requests for data

  

  Fewer than half of the businesses asked to participate in jobs surveys actually answer. That can lead to biased data.

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• Aug 12, 2025

  How a Texas-based manufacturer is dealing with tariff back-and-forth

  

  The extended tariff deadline doesn’t help with planning certainty.

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• Aug 12, 2025

  Who's gonna take out the trash?

  

  More than 2,000 trash collection workers across the country have walked off the job after contract talks stalled this summer.

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• Aug 12, 2025

  Pediatricians, vaccine costs, and confusion

  

  It sometimes costs pediatricians more to buy and store vaccines than insurance companies pay to put shots in arms. 

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• Aug 11, 2025

  What does Trump's 100% tariff on semiconductors mean for consumers?

  

  Trump has promised to exempt chip makers that invest in the U.S., but prices will still likely go up on a wide range of electronics.

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• Aug 7, 2025

  More stick than carrot: Trump says he'll deploy tariffs to incentivize U.S. chip making

  

  The Biden administration focused on investing in domestic chip production. President Trump is taking a different approach.

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• Aug 6, 2025

  Build cars in the U.S. or abroad? Tariffs give automakers a difficult choice

  

  Audi is reportedly contemplating spending billions on a new plant in Tennessee to avoid billions in tariff impact.

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• Aug 4, 2025

  Nobody wins when statistics get politicized

  

  President Trump fired the top Bureau of Labor Statistics official on Friday, after the agency issued a weak jobs report. Plus, how U.S. tariffs could sink Lesotho’s textile industry.

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• Aug 4, 2025

  When calculating statistics becomes political

  

  The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported weak July job growth and made downward revisions for May and June. President Trump, upset about the revisions, fired the head of that agency.

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• Jul 31, 2025

  Prices are edging up for many things. The Fed is watching

  

  Wages are also rising but people aren't spending as much.

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