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Americans Charged $1 Billion to Buy Now Pay Later Platforms over Black Friday

The private debt crisis, coupled with a consumer-based economy, is a recipe for disaster. Americans followed the age-old thinking of “buy now if it will cost more...

Black Friday Shoppers Prepared to Take on Debt

Retailers are predicting a slight decline in Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales, an early indication of holiday-season spending and Q4 sales. Total sales in the US...

Seasonal Hires Reach 16-Year Low

Seasonal retail hiring may plummet to the lowest level since 2009. Job placement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas expects retailers to add under 500,000...

Business Flees California due to Overregulation

California has been repelling capital through overregulation. The energy sector high-tailed out of the state in recent years under Governor Gavin Newsom’s...

Retail and Tech Jobs At-Risk in the US

US employers have reduced their workforce more in the first seven months of 2025 than in all of 2024. The DOGE cuts to the public sector were the primary driver of...

Transitory Tariff Inflation?

Fed Chair Jerome Powell said he expects inflation to be “transitory,” a word reminiscent of America’s situation three years ago when the Fed repeatedly urged...

Retail Closures in US Hit Pandemic Levels

Over 6,481 retailers have closed their doors since the beginning of the new year, according to data from Coresight Research in November, but that figure is expected...

Body Cameras for Food and Retail Workers?

Crime in the UK has become so insane that employees at coffee shops and grocery stores are now wearing body cameras for their own safety. The government wonders why...

Corporate Bankruptcies Surpass Pandemic Levels

Americans are opting to file for bankruptcy at a faster pace as they cannot repay their debts. A few major banks came out to say that they lost over $4.1 billion...

America’s Consumer Economy is Dying – Weak May Retail

America’s robust consumer economy helped it emerge as a global powerhouse. Nations once stood in line, eager to sell to America as our consumer economy composed...