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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters Why Do Millennials Hate Groceries?
Because they prefer chips from CVS and going out to restaurants. And, increasingly, so do their parents.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters When Will Robots Take All the Jobs?
There isn’t much evidence from today’s statistics that human workers are on the verge of a historic shift. But just wait until the next recession.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Why Investors Are Terrified of a President Trump
The Republican nominee’s presidential campaign has been nightmarish for his hotel business. Financial markets foresee a similar effect on the world economy.
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Wikimedia Does Advertising Ruin Everything?
"We have to get over our addiction to free stuff. Suck it up and pay,” says Tim Wu, the author of a new book on the history of ads.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Donald J. Trump’s Television Future
He may lose the election. But how will Trump capitalize on his political celebrity? Here are four possibilities.
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Mike Segar / Reuters ‘It’s Policy That Matters’
Donald Trump’s dwindling cadre of advocates urge reporters and voters to focus on his substance, not his sins. His tax plan, however, would not benefit from such scrutiny.
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Ken Blaze / Reuters NFL Ratings Just Fell Off a Cliff: Why?
Four culprits: Presidential debates, cord-cutters, Twitter streams, and Peyton Manning.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters The Invisible Revolution: How Aging Is Quietly Changing America
A rapidly growing elderly population might be the most important yet inevitable feature of the country’s economic future. Why aren’t voters hearing more about it?
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Brian Snyder / Reuters No, Not Gary Johnson
The Libertarian candidate puts a likable face on a deeply troubling economic policy.
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David Gray / Reuters Trump’s Vision of the Economy vs. the Actual Economy
At the first debate, he conjured up an economic dystopia that was largely a fantasy.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Thanks, Obama
The historic—and underrated—economic record of the 44th president
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Jason Redmond / Reuters Fear of a College-Educated Barista
Is there really a Millennial underemployment crisis? Yes, but only among liberal-arts majors.
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Paul Sancya / AP Why Do Americans Distrust the Media?
Donald Trump, anti-elite sentiment, and the dark side of media abundance
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Mike Segar / Reuters The Free-Time Paradox in America
The rich were meant to have the most leisure time. The working poor were meant to have the least. The opposite is happening. Why?
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Justin Renteria America’s Monopoly Problem
How big business jammed the wheels of innovation
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Brian Snyder / Reuters The Next Industrial Revolution
An interview with the Economist columnist Ryan Avent on his new book about how technology will change the labor force
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Jorge Lopez / Reuters The Pill, the Condom, and the American Dream
Poor kids are finally narrowing the achievement gap with rich kids. Is contraception the cause?
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Mike Segar / Reuters The Twilight of Fox News
As pay TV slowly declines, cable news faces a demographic cliff. And nobody has further to fall than the merchant of right-wing outrage.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Millennials: The Mobile and the Stuck
Why young people aren’t buying houses
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Eric Thayer / Reuters Donald Trump and ‘Economic Anxiety’
What’s fueling his support?
