Merchant mariners are aging out of the workforce. Will there be enough new cadets to expand the fleet? 

The number of people who have spent six months or more looking for work has been rising.

Demand to lease industrial spaces — meaning warehouses that store everything from car parts to construction materials — shrank by 11.3 million square feet in the second quarter of 2025.

Nicole Cervi at Wells Fargo explains how she uses public inflation and jobs data in her work.

Melanie Ehrenkranz writes Laid Off, a newsletter she describes as “the coolest place on the internet to talk about being laid off.”

Slower demand for imports combined with a greater supply of ships means lower shipping costs overall.

According to the August Beige Book, nearly every district reported a modest rise in demand for loans.

The Federal Reserve Board of Governors is in the news, but don’t forget that five of the twelve people voting on interest rates are Fed regional bank presidents. 

The number of households that are homeowners in the U.S. has fallen, ever so slightly, by 0.1% year on year. Still, today’s homeownership rate of 65% is par for the course. 

Employers have added an anemic 35,333 jobs per month since May.