The trend in gun sales changed last year compared to most other years in the past decade. Gun sales, using the FBI’s firearms background check as a proxy, reached 38,876,673 in 2021. This was…
Data about movie finances tends to focus on box office sales. By this measure, “Avatar” (2009) ranks in first place at $2,847,379,794. When adjusted for inflation, “Gone With the Wind” (1939) generally takes the…
A 24/7 Tempo analysis reveals that people in this Scandinavia country are the happiest in the world.
The price of residential real estate has skyrocketed in the past two years. No single reason accounts for this, but several have contributed. Some have sought to find investment properties on the water. According…
Loneliness became an epidemic in America over the last two years. As we hit the second anniversary of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become more evident that millions of Americans spent…
No other period of the year matches the holiday season as a barometer of economic health.
Why General Motors sales over the next year will say a great deal about the direction of the auto industry.
Just a decade ago, no one could have forecast that a large city would buckle because of climate change.
Cities in areas where the jobless rate has been higher than the national average for decades continue to post rates above 10%.
Experts warn that a recession has become likely. But can a recession brought on by inflation be stopped by full employment?
Apple shares have been on an extraordinary run recently, but that may be over.
The share price of Twitter surged after billionaire Elon Musk bought a notable number of shares, but will that last?
Howard Schultz has returned to run Starbucks again, in part to halt a move by U.S. employees to unionize.
There may not have been any time since World War II when home prices have risen as fast as in the last two years. According to the carefully followed S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices, in…
TV and cable networks often don’t want to air a new show with the burden of the costs of an entire season of production. It could mean as many as 20 episodes with the…
The history of wildfires in U.S. history is muddy. Some of this has to do with how long records have been kept. Another has to do with whether modern analysts accept information that is…
America’s urban highways were as crowded as parking lots on many days in 2019 — as they had been for decades. As the COVID-19 pandemic quickly shuttered offices across the country in 2020, even…
The president who oversaw the largest change in the federal debt was Franklin D. Roosevelt.
A 24/7 Wall St. analysis reveals that the country expected to grow fastest during the 21st century is Niger.
This is the least trusted institution in America, according to a 24/7 Wall St. analysis.
