Homelessness is no longer a distant or isolated issue; it’s a growing crisis affecting communities across cities, suburbs, and rural regions. Rising housing costs, economic instability, mental health challenges, and failing social services have…
The price of gasoline has a significant impact on U.S. household spending. American consumers are currently benefiting from fuel prices at multiyear lows.
Free trade agreements (FTAs) are formal arrangements between countries. Their purpose is to reduce or eliminate barriers to the exchange of goods and services; they do this in an assortment of ways, including lowering…
While cannabis use in the recent past has been stigmatized, the plant is now fueling a multi-billion dollar industry. In fact, as nations around the world decriminalize and legalize cannabis, doctors are also discovering…
As of right now, several countries have legalized recreational marijuana on the federal level. Others aren’t quite there yet. Still, with the recent trend of decriminalization and legalization of cannabis around the globe, doctors…
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, unemployment in the United States hit its highest level in more than half a century, topping out at 14.8% in April 2020. By the end of…
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, home prices in the United States have climbed twice as fast as incomes. Now, millions of Americans are effectively priced out of the market. Surging home prices…
What will trigger a market correction? Soft corporate earnings? AI demand waning? Tariff-driven inflation? Or nothing at all?
The last time unemployment was 5% was in August 2021. The job market was rebounding from the COVID-19 pandemic, which had driven the jobless rate to 14.8% in April of the previous year. Economists…
The Producer Price Index surged in July, in part due to tariffs. Consumers could face sharp inflation again toward the end of the year.
The GDPs of Ukraine and Kansas are similar. Both are large producers of corn and wheat, but some fields in Ukraine have become battlefields.
There are several ways to measure how rich a country is. GDP per capita. Household income. Household wealth. The percentage of the population that lives above a certain income level. The Economist has come…
Inflation in the United States has exceeded the Federal Reserve’s target 2% rate for over four years. Rapidly rising consumer prices have driven up household expenses considerably. Before the current inflationary period began, American…
The United States and China have reached an agreement regarding critical trade disputes, says President Trump. These disputes include rare earth metals and high-end chips. The agreement involved China easing up on rare earth…
The housing market has leveled off over the past year, showing only modest growth. There was only about a 0.8% rise in median home price when comparing May 2025 to May 2024. However, this…
