Segments From This Episode

• Retail inventories have dropped. But discounts might stick around.

  by Justin Ho

  

  Over the last year, many retailers have been successfully using discounts to purge their excess inventories. Now, retailers might use discounts to lure skittish consumers.

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• What kind of signal does FOMC unanimity send to markets and others watching the economy?

  by Matt Levin

  

  Dissent on interest rate decisions might send mixed messages to Wall Street about where the economy is headed.

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• U.S. equity investors think stocks are too expensive, survey finds

  by Mitchell Hartman

  

  S&P Global’s investment manager index survey says most sectors are losing favor with investors. What’s going on?

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• The economic and logistical realities of straw-bale building

  by Maria Hollenhorst

  

  One couple shares their experience with an alternative construction project.

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• What comes after a soft landing?

  by Kristin Schwab

  

  There are only so many options. Ideally, they don’t include a boom or a bust.

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• How the prickly pear cactus inspired a scientist seeking alternatives to fossil fuels

  by Zoe Kurland

  

  Engineers at the University of Texas at El Paso have discovered a low-cost, “biomimetic” way of generating hydrogen gas.

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