Articles filed under Economy
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Tiny houses catch on in war on homelessnessNov 04, 2018 1:00 am - KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The 13 tiny houses sit in neat rows on the small plot of land in south Kansas City. There's a comforting uniformity to the group, each structure a sim...
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What the Forever stamp teaches us about inflation - and the value of a thingOct 28, 2018 1:09 am - In these low-inflation days, there aren't many businesses that would dare impose an overnight price hike of 10 percent on their best-known product - and that would simul...
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U.S. economy grew at strong 3.5 percent rate in Q3Oct 26, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. economy grew at a robust annual rate of 3.5 percent in the July-September quarter as the strongest burst of consumer spending in nearly four y...
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The cannabis industry is hiring. One snag: Pot is still illegalOct 14, 2018 1:06 am - Mainstream executives want in on the cannabis craze. That's not surprising, with the value of some Canadian pot businesses topping $10 billion and Coca-Cola Co. and Mols...
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Analysis: It's better to be born rich than talentedOct 14, 2018 1:05 am - A revolution in genomics is creeping into economics. It allows us to say something we might have suspected, but could never confirm: money trumps genes. Using one new, g...
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How the super-rich are stockpiling wealth in black-box charitiesOct 14, 2018 1:00 am - It's all the rage in charitable giving — and it's actually got some charities worried. Donor-advised funds — money that grows tax-free in individual accounts — are resha...
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Wall Street's new left: Millennials see a politics beyond profitOct 14, 2018 1:00 am - For 65 hours a week, Zack Truelson works for Wall Street's hyper-capitalists. On weekends, he hits the streets for America's socialists. Truelson, 27, is part of a new g...
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Child marriage in the US is surprisingly prevalent. Now states are passing laws to make it harder.Oct 09, 2018 1:00 am - EVERETT, Pa. - It was the day of the birthday party, and the husband and wife had invited everyone they knew. They'd spent the morning buying food - a sheet cake, jumbo ...
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10 years later: How the housing market has changed since the crashOct 07, 2018 1:15 am - Flashback to fall 2008 and you'll remember the free fall the U.S. economy experienced. At the heart of it was the collapse of the housing market. If you were house hunti...
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Downward mobility: Where middle-class kids are worse off than their parentsOct 07, 2018 1:10 am - A team of economists led by Raj Chetty of Harvard University has released a massive new data set on prosperity at the neighborhood level in the United States. Called the...