How to manage financial stress in uncertain times
Having an action plan for personal finance is critical in uncertain times. Photo by Nicolas Guyonnet/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty ImagesAmerican families are struggling to keep up with their bills.
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How the US can mine its own critical minerals − without digging new holes
Piles of rare earth oxides praseodymium, cerium, lanthanum, neodymium, samarium and gadolinium. Peggy Greb/USDA-ARSEvery time you use your phone, open your computer or listen to your favorite music on AirPods, you are relying on critical minerals.
Being honest about using AI at work makes people trust you less, research finds
Whether you’re using AI to write cover letters, grade papers or draft ad campaigns, you might want to think twice about telling others. That simple act of disclosure can make people trust you less, our new peer-reviewed article found.
Whether GDP swings up or down, there are limits to what it says about the economy and your place in it
The price of eggs might mean more to some Americans than what's going on with GDP. Scott Olson/Getty ImagesThe Bureau of Economic Analysis released the latest U.S. gross domestic product data on April 30.
How rising wages for construction workers are shifting the foundations of the housing market
Construction costs have surged in recent years, pushing homeownership further out of reach for many Americans. But this isn’t a new concern: In 1978, the U.S.
No whistleblower is an island – why networks of allies are key to exposing corruption
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen speaks at a conference in 2022. Kimberly White/Getty Images for SumOfUsWhistleblowers – people who expose wrongdoing within their organizations – play a crucial role in holding governments and corporations accountable. But speaking up can come at a cost.
Bureaucrats get a bad rap, but they deserve more credit − a sociologist of work explains why
It’s telling that U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration wants to fire bureaucrats.
Trump administration’s attempt to nix the labor rights of thousands of federal workers on ‘national security’ grounds furthers the GOP’s long-held anti-union agenda
Airline passengers wait at a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint before boarding to flights in Denver in 2022. Patrick T.
Brazil now forecast to see double-digit inflation
Headline inflation has increased markedly across both advanced and emerging market (EM) economies this year ending up much higher than we forecast six months ago. Consumer price inflation is expected to remain elevated until at least the second quarter of 2022 as ongoing supply chain disruptions, higher energy prices, and stronger-than-expected demand in countries such as the US provide additional impetus to already buoyant goods prices. Nowhere is this clearer than in Brazil, where annual inflation rose to 10.67 per cent in October, the highest rate since January 2016.
Worrying about the US inflation outlook
In October 2021, the US 12-month CPI inflation rate reached its highest level in the US since 1990, 6.2 per cent year-on-year. Pent-up demand and higher energy prices have been a major factor in the increase but supply chain shortages and increases in other commodity prices also explain more recent increases (see Sanchez Juanino, Macchiarelli and Naisbitt, 2021).
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