WASHINGTON — Inflation slowed a bit last month as Americans ramped up their spending, though price gains remained elevated and are a challenge for many voters as the midterm elections approach. The Commerce Department said Wednesday that consumer prices rose 3.4% in August compared with a year earlier, below the 3.7% economists had forecast. On
As the “forgotten generation” squashed between the culturally dominant Boomers and millennials, the people born between the late 60s and 80s often go under the radar in conversations about Botox online. But that generation is now arriving at plastic surgeons’ offices not just for wrinkle treatments, but for facelifts once reserved for patients 15 years
The specter of higher interest rates is once again hanging over markets. US stocks were rattled on Wednesday as bond yields spiked to a new post-Great Financial Crisis peak, signaling investors’ rising rate expectations and their unease in holding government debt amid fiscal uncertainty, geopolitical turmoil, and inflation fears. The 10-year US Treasury yield, which
A six-figure annual salary used to be a milestone for career success and financial security, but it isn’t what it used to be. The era of elevated inflation that began during the COVID pandemic has eroded the value of $100,000 to the point that Americans earning that much are hunting for bargains like everyone else.
Less than two weeks after Meta agreed to a massive $18 billion multistate settlement in a lawsuit over social media’s consumer harms, the company announced its biggest bet on consumer AI to date — and one that requires significantly more trust than social media ever did. On Tuesday, the company introduced Muse, its new personal AI agent
Throw a rock in New York City, and apparently you’ll hit an AI food ad. At least that was X user Maggie Moda’s assessment after spotting a series of peculiar sidewalk signs outside the city’s delis and cafés in a post that has since racked up 2.8 million views. There were croissant sandwiches with almost
