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Feeling more generous about tips this holiday season? You're not alone.

Dec 10, 2024
Despite gripes about the near-constant requests for tips in retail and services, Bankrate says more people are planning to give holiday tips this year than last.
More than 50% of Bankrate survey respondents say they plan to tip or give gifts to their child care providers.
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Empty nesters own some prime real estate. And they don't seem very interested in leaving it.

Dec 10, 2024
There are more than 20 million households with at least two empty bedrooms, no kids, owned and occupied for more than a decade by people over 55.
Empty nester households are commonplace in Buffalo, Cleveland or Detroit, but younger adults are preferring to live in more urban areas.
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How Juan Soto scored a record $765 million deal with the Mets

Dec 9, 2024
Contracts keep getting bigger in Major League Baseball, which has no salary cap. Soto’s windfall surpasses Shohei Ohtani’s $700 million deal.
Juan Soto was with the New York Yankees during this year's World Series matchup with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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Demand for electricity is rising faster than forecast

Dec 9, 2024
EVs, heat pumps, chipmaking and AI use are likely to drive expansion. It won't be the first time the power grid has dealt with rapid growth.
The U.S. power grid is likely to feel the impact of growing industries like electric vehicles and artificial intelligence. Limited transmission infrastructure might be a weak link in the chain.
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Will new tariffs affect monetary policy? For now, it's wait-and-see

Dec 9, 2024
Carola Binder, an economist at the University of Texas at Austin, explains why tariffs might cause prices to rise, but they doesn't necessarily mean the Fed will get involved right off the bat.
Imported cars parked at the Port of Los Angeles.
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How the humble filing cabinet revolutionized data storage

Dec 9, 2024
"It was promoted as giving your office an automatic memory," said Craig Robertson, an expert on filing cabinets. "People were surprisingly excited by it."
The filing cabinet allowed offices to move from bound books to loose paper.
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Content creator claims copycat

TikTok creators are trying to draw the line between innocent similarity and outright copyright infringement.
Product and lifestyle influencers do big business on TikTok. Hoping to protect her content rights, one creator turned to the courts.
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The advertising world is changing fast — mergers can help firms stay ahead of the curve

Dec 9, 2024
Omnicom says its acquisition of rival Interpublic Group makes it well positioned to grow under the “new era of marketing."
The rise of AI and social media have disrupted the advertising industry. Omnicom hopes its merger with IPG will keep the company ahead of the curve.
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Consumers think inflation will slow … eventually

Dec 9, 2024
Consumers tend to overestimate where inflation will be, but if you look at their expectations three years from now, they believe it will slow down.
Consumers are optimistic about other aspects of their economic future, like the stock market and wage growth.
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A global update on bad actors in cryptocurrency

Economic sanctions, as well as frauds and scams, tend to drive illicit crypto activity in the countries where it's most prevalent.
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