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When the Negro Leagues disbanded, there were winners and losers.

"We can't really address the problem without engaging business at full scale," says Columbia Business School's Bruce Usher.

In the '70s and '80s, college students demanded divestment as a way to put pressure on South Africa to end its apartheid policy.

CPI and PCE can both seem to be out of step with consumers' experience.

"The Sims had really kind of seeded that desire for homeownership in me at a young age," said Elle Hunt, a journalist based in the U.K. "And I'd spent the interim 20 years walking away from that dream a bit."

The Federal Reserve will be watching jobs and unemployment numbers, as well as a manufacturing index and other private sector reports.

Barely a quarter of U.S. adults continue to own landlines. But wireless at work and home means you're always tethered to both.

Charge cards have become an important piece of the bottom line for department stores, including Nordstrom, Macy’s and Kohl’s.

Assistance from the state and new routes have helped one company stay afloat.

U.S. exports become more expensive overseas, but imported goods become cheaper here in the U.S.