What Is Recycling? The Definition Is So Broad That It Allows Corporations to Dupe Consumers
Companies’ use of the word recycling to describe linear processes “does real harm,” Budris added. It “gives consumers a false sense of confidence that what they’re buying is sustainable or ...
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A global economist’s take on tariffs: ‘American consumers will get hurt’
In a Q&A, Brown University Professor of Economics Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan discussed how the new presidential administration’s ...
What To Expect From Thursday's Report On The GDP
The U.S. economy slowed but continued to grow at a healthy rate in the fourth quarter, if forecasters are correct.
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UK Pursues Pension Fund Reform, Moves to Boost Economic Growth
The UK government is looking to alter how defined benefit pension plans are managed by allowing excess funds to be funneled ...
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What the government's defined benefit pension scheme raid means for you
The government wants to let companies use extra final salary scheme funds to boost the economy but there are risks involved.
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The Trump Economy Again: 3 Money Moves the Upper-Middle Class Should Make by Inauguration Day
The Trump Economy presents opportunities and risks for investors. The upper-middle class can benefit from making the following money moves. Diversify Assets Outside of the US Financial Systems ...
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Top 5 reasons billionaires are bad for the economy
Trillions are being gifted in inheritance in particular, creating a new aristocratic oligarchy that has immense power in our politics and our economy. Our deeply unequal world has a long history of ...
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China meets annual GDP target with 5% growth in 2024 – as it happened
At the conference, NBS Commissioner Kang Yi and other officials revealed the yearly figures for gross domestic product, population, unemployment and other metrics that will inform policy decisions ...
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China Says Economy Grew 5% Last Year, Driven by Exports
Analysts say they see signs of malaise in China’s domestic economy, but those problems were offset mainly by robust exports and a $1 trillion trade surplus. By Keith Bradsher Reporting from ...
Global Times20d
China’s GDP expands 5% in 2024, hitting annual growth target
China's GDP grew 5 percent year-on-year to 134.9 trillion yuan ($18.41 trillion) in 2024, breaking the 130-trillion-yuan mark for the first time, according to data released by the National Bureau ...
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China’s economy grows more than expected. But fears of Trump tariffs loom
China’s economy grew more than expected in the last three months of 2024, official data showed on Friday, as it awaits the likely imposition of fresh tariffs by US President-elect Donald Trump ...
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Why the U.S. economy is still strong despite the Fed’s 2022-’23 rate hikes
Why the U.S. economy is still strong despite the Fed’s 2022-’23 rate hikes Effect of rate hikes ‘has been much weaker than the economics textbook would have predicted,’ according to ...