Published on: 2025-06-05 13:00:00
Mortgage rates can change daily and even hourly. Tharon Green/CNET Mortgage rates aren't budging, and neither is the housing market, as investors continue to weigh the unknowns of President Trump's economic policies. According to Bankrate, the average rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage crawled past 7% last week, up from around 6.75% a month ago. However, despite an increase in housing inventory, pending home sales plummeted by 6.3% last month, according to the National Association of Realtors.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-14 01:40:20
White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett gives a TV interview outside of the White House in Washington, U.S., May 9, 2025. National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said Tuesday that the Trump administration does not want to "harm Apple " with tariffs. "Everybody is trying to make it seem like it's a catastrophe if there's a tiny little tariff on them right now, to try to negotiate down the tariffs," Hassett told CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Tuesday. "In the end, we'll see what happens, we'
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 13:00:00
Stagflation can be worse than a recession. Investors are already bracing for it. Getty Images/ DNY59/ Jeffrey Hazelwood Recessions are scary. Stagflation, a combination of stagnating growth and high inflation, is even scarier. Over the last couple of months, President Trump's turbulent tariff agenda has resurrected fears of this rare and toxic scenario in which prices rise as the economy slows and the labor market suffers. Stagflation conjures up the major economic crisis in the 1970s, marked
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Stagflation can be worse than a recession. Investors are already bracing for it. Getty Images/ DNY59/ Jeffrey Hazelwood Even if you haven't lived through a major recession, it's scary to think about. Even more frightening is stagflation, a combination of "stagnation" and "inflation." Last month, President Trump's turbulent tariff agenda resurrected fears of stagflation, a rare scenario in which prices increase while the economy slows and the labor market gets battered. Since February, new imp
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Getty Image/ Zooey Liao/ CNET Anything is a #RecessionIndicator on social media these days. A Dunkin' Donuts shuttering in Boston. The return of the ice bucket challenge. Gallows humor has always been a coping mechanism. While recession memes represent a cultural zeitgeist, there's real anxiety about the economy under the surface. When more of us are dependent on credit for basic necessities like groceries, bracing for a formidable storm doesn't seem so tongue-in-cheek. More indicators came t
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Getty Image/ Zooey Liao/ CNET Anything is a #RecessionIndicator on social media these days. A Dunkin' Donuts shuttering in Boston. The return of the ice bucket challenge. Gallows humor has always been a coping mechanism. While recession memes represent a cultural zeitgeist, there's real anxiety about the economy under the surface. When more of us are dependent on credit for basic necessities like groceries, bracing for a formidable storm doesn't seem so tongue-in-cheek. More indicators came t
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is not merely reshaping industries, it is reconstructing the fundamental frameworks of economic productivity, labor dynamics, and market competition. While AI’s promise of enhanced efficiency and decision-making capabilities is well documented, its deeper implications on macroeconomic structures and geopolitical power shifts remain underexplored. The challenge lies not in AI’s ability to automate tasks but in its potential to redefine economic paradigms in ways polic
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Economic policy emphasizing exports Seaport at sunset, a painting by Claude Lorrain, completed in 1639 at the height of mercantilism Mercantilism is a nationalist economic policy that is designed to maximize the exports and minimize the imports of an economy. In other words, it seeks to maximize the accumulation of resources within the country and use those resources for one-sided trade. The concept aims to reduce a possible current account deficit or reach a current account surplus, and it i
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Shenzhen is China’s leading high-tech hub. The once obscure fishing village became a pillar of the global economy thanks to its proximity to Hong Kong and to being designated a Special Economic Zone in the earliest days of Deng’s reforms, plus some other smart choices and good luck. Part and parcel of that economic transformation is that the city has physically transformed from looking like a poor fishing village to looking like a major 21st-century city. Photos of Shenzhen via PMA Magazine Th
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“It would be hard for me to think of cleantech or climate tech sectors that aren’t facing huge risks,” says Noah Kaufman, senior research scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, who served on the Council of Economic Advisers under President Joe Biden. “I think we’re a country without a federal climate strategy at this point, with an economy headed in the wrong direction, so I don’t see a lot of reason to be optimistic,” he adds. Indeed, there are mounting challeng
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Recession 2025 warning signs are swirling everywhere—for those willing to look. There are, of course, straightforward analyses from business journalists and financial experts. The S&P 500 ended March with its worst performance since December 2022. A CNBC study showed that a majority of chief financial officers—the corporate leaders who pay close attention to daily market fluctuations alongside their companies' profits—reported feeling "pessimistic" about the U.S. economy. And ahead of President
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I’ve always heard that tax refunds are for investing or saving for retirement. Mine? It's for eggs. One carton. That's it. A clear indicator of how far $12 goes in today’s economy Luckily, I wasn’t relying on my mini windfall to play the stock market or kickstart my emergency fund. In fact, 38% of US adults plan on using their tax refunds to catch up on overdue bills, tackle debt or cover housing costs, according to a recent CNET survey. Even if you finagled more than $12 back from the IRS this
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I’ve always heard that tax refunds are for investing or saving for retirement. Mine? It's for eggs. One carton. That's it. A clear indicator of how far $12 goes in today’s economy Luckily, I wasn’t relying on my mini windfall to play the stock market or kickstart my emergency fund. In fact, 38% of US adults plan on using their tax refunds to catch up on overdue bills, tackle debt or cover housing costs, according to a recent CNET survey. Even if you finagled more than $12 back from the IRS this
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Mortgage rates are on a bit of a downward trend, with the average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage dropping from the 6.9% range in early February to around 6.7% this week. But a shaky economy will likely keep the housing market frozen for a while. US stocks tumbled after President Donald Trump refused to rule out a full-blown recession in an interview Sunday. Prospective homebuyers are bracing for what Trump is now calling "a period of transition," with steeper inflation, economic austerity and
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-31 08:33:41
In 2021, Lisa Chen, a software engineer, started a new weight-loss medication. Then, something interesting happened at her local coffee shop, her employer's healthcare costs, and the global economy. In six months, Lisa stopped buying her daily morning muffin, causing the coffee shop to lose $600 in annual revenue from one customer. Within a year, she canceled her beer-of-the-month subscription and stopped ordering late-night DoorDash. By 2023, her grocery bill dropped 40%, alcohol spending fell
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-02 22:08:00
You may have seen messages on social media urging people not to buy anything at all on Friday, Feb. 28, as part of a protest. This isn't just your friends getting fed up with prices and corporations; it's an actual organized movement. Consumers are being urged not to spend any money, online or otherwise, for 24 hours, the entirety of Feb. 28. Boycott organizer John Schwarz told USA Today this week that he feels people are upset with corporate greed. He spoke more at length about the matter in a
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Previous research demonstrates that local conditions are highly visible and proximate for citizens and thus have a distinct impact on political attitude formation. However, we still lack knowledge of the interplay of the local and the individual level. In this study, we examine how a specific group (economically deprived individuals) responds to local social spending in the formation of political dissatisfaction. Research at the national level has provided contradictory findings concerning the i
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Unit Network, a decentralized financial ecosystem enabling trading of real-world and digital assets through tokenization, has raised $18 million. The venture capital investment was led by industry leaders such as the Blockchain Founders Fund and Outlier Ventures, alongside notable entrepreneurs including Cristina Venture (White Star Capital), Diego Gutiérrez Zaldívar (Rootstock), Joshua Seims (Metastable Capital), Richard Wang (Draper Dragon Fund), Thomas Hessler (Zanox), Yuval Rooz (DigitalAss
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