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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.
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.
How Juan Soto scored a record $765 million deal with the Mets
by
Janet Nguyen
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.
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.
Will new tariffs affect monetary policy? For now, it's wait-and-see
by
Kristin Schwab
and Sean McHenry
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.
How the humble filing cabinet revolutionized data storage
by
Sarah Leeson
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."
Content creator claims copycat
by
Kristin Schwab
and Nicholas Guiang
Dec 9, 2024
TikTok creators are trying to draw the line between innocent similarity and outright copyright infringement.
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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."
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.
A global update on bad actors in cryptocurrency
by
David Brancaccio
and Alex Schroeder
Dec 9, 2024
Economic sanctions, as well as frauds and scams, tend to drive illicit crypto activity in the countries where it's most prevalent.