The American consumer finally starts to lose steam. Play. Listen Now. Save ...

The U.S. has already surpassed its 2025 budget deficit with about a month and a half left to go in its fiscal year. According ...

Credito Emiliano accepts wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano as collateral. A warming climate is putting that unusual system to the ...

Americans have officially started to lose their Medicaid coverage as new so-called “work requirements” kick in under the big Republican tax and spending law passed by Congress last summer. Most states ...

This morning: what’s driving the ballooning national debt.

Plus, Claude-generated text will be watermarked, and federal regulators order Kalshi to continue to operate in NY state.

Puerto Rico is in the middle of a severe drought, which has led the government to begin officially rationing water. July was the driest in the Island’s history, and last week, the water authority ...

Another inflation marker came out on Thursday: the produce price index, which showed inflation was a bit cooler in July. Headline inflation is at 4.7% year-over-year, and core inflation is a bit lower ...

Electricity is getting more expensive and less reliable. Local power, like solar panels and batteries, helps solve those problems, but they’re expensive. That’s why Ann Arbor, Michigan, is installing ...

As soon as you walk into Tochterman’s Fishing Tackle, a store in Baltimore, you get hit with the smell of shrimp and garlic. That comes from gels and sprays meant to go on fishing lures, and some of ...

Utilities see more upside in relatively cheap solar cells than expensive new coal-burning plants. That’s despite the Trump administration’s efforts to boost coal as a source of electricity. Nobody ...

Quarterly earnings reports show big numbers and even bigger hopes for the AI trade.