IT spending is set to rise 11.1% in 2026 to hit $1.43 trillion - and it comes as no surprise that continued AI deployment ...

Alphabet acknowledged that increasing capital spending is hurting P&L, largely because of higher depreciation. It also ...

But spending to spend can create a deficit of emotion. Morgan Housel’s “The Art of Spending Money” is a good primer on how to make decisions.

Americans may not be feeling jolly about their economic prospects, but that didn't stop shoppers from opening their wallets on Black Friday and driving spending to new records. Despite record holiday ...

AI spending was quite hefty in 2025, and that alarmed some investors, especially going into the back half of the year. In ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Bankrate analyst Ted Rossman about consumer spending and debt, and what it tells us about the overall health of the economy. The American economy is a consumer economy.

For decades now, we have been told that artificial intelligence systems will soon replace human workers. Sixty years ago, for example, Herbert Simon, who received a Nobel Prize in economics and a ...

The American consumer economy is increasingly powered by a narrow slice of households at the very top of the income ladder. The wealthiest 10 percent now account for roughly half of all spending, a ...

The ultra wealthy held up the global luxury goods market this year despite global economic and political uncertainties, and have shifted their spending away from traditional luxury goods and more ...

Even as holiday spending is expected to surpass $1 trillion, retailers are set to hire the lowest number of seasonal workers in decades. New York's feeling festive, from the magic of Macy's holiday ...