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Sabri Ben-Achour

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What's up with the weak GDP growth?

Apr 25, 2024
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EPA aims to quash coal emissions once and for all

Apr 25, 2024
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Manufacturing comes out of its own private recession

Apr 24, 2024
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Millions of Americans could get a pay bump

Apr 24, 2024
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Raising rates is not completely off the table

Apr 19, 2024
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The great bitcoin halving

Apr 19, 2024
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Most workers now entitled to unpaid time for pregnancy care

Apr 18, 2024
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Reflections on Baltimore's bridge collapse from the workers who built it

Apr 18, 2024
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Why the unemployment gap for Black and white workers persists

Apr 12, 2024
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Workers are getting a smaller slice of the pie

Apr 12, 2024
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Gross domestic income (GDI), explained

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Aug 25, 2022
GDI should be close to GDP, theoretically. It's not.
Measure all spending in an economy and all income in an economy, and they should be roughly the same. New figures show that's not the case right now.
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Why retailers messed up their inventories so badly

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Aug 18, 2022
Target, Walmart and others have struggled to keep up with changes in consumer buying and have had to predict demand further in advance.
Target and other retailers have been marking down prices in hopes of moving their glut of merchandise.
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When quarterly earnings "miss Wall Street expectations," whose expectations do we mean?

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Aug 17, 2022
Stock analysts set these expectations, and stock prices react to whether they are met.
Target's financial results fell short of Wall Street expectations, and the stock lost ground.
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More supply chain trouble could be on the horizon

by Sabri Ben-Achour and Erika Soderstrom
Aug 9, 2022
Three factors that could cause big supply chain problems down the road.
In an aerial view, shipping containers sit idle at the Port of Oakland.
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The science part of the CHIPS and Science Act

by Sabri Ben-Achour and Erika Soderstrom
Aug 5, 2022
The National Science Foundation could receive $81 billion over five years, boosting innovation and talent development, its director says.
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Should the U.S. try to restrict high-tech American companies from investing in China?

by Sabri Ben-Achour and Jarrett Dang
Aug 2, 2022
The proposal is part of a larger competition package being considered in Congress.
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai explains why addressing economic coercion from China is a challenge.
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GDP dips by 0.9% in second quarter, but consumers are still spending

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Jul 28, 2022
While consumers cut back on goods spending, spending on services jumped.
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Ad spending slowdown hits tech and social media firms, but not equally

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Jul 27, 2022
While ad revenue growth is slowing down, experts don't see a decline coming.
Google is expected to comprise 30% of total worldwide digital ad revenues this year, one analyst said. Meanwhile, Snapchat and Twitter are each expected to make up under 1%.
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Why it's so hard to address the monkeypox outbreak

by Sabri Ben-Achour , Erika Soderstrom and Jarrett Dang
Jul 21, 2022
A key part of the problem is a lack adequate infrastructure and investment.
People wait in line to recieve the Monkeypox vaccine before the opening of a new mass vaccination site at the Bushwick Education Campus in Brooklyn on July 17, 2022, in New York City.
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What does "broad-based" inflation look like down the road?

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Jul 13, 2022
Energy, food and rent were big drivers of the 9.1% inflation reading. Where are those numbers headed?
Food prices were up 10% year over year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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