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Thanks to a strong stock market and record home prices, asset owners are feeling richer, even if it’s only on paper. Today, we get into the “wealth effect” and how it may play out in the presidential election. Also: Higher prices slow Procter & Gamble sales, the “catastrophic” halt to a Baltimore port business, and why companies change the metrics they report to investors.
This article was produced by The Bittman Project and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. which supports independent journalists as they forward fresh narratives about inequality. It is co-published here with permission. EHRP’s high-quality journalism is co-published with mainstream media outlets, to help readers understand and address systemic hardship. Cooking and food shopping are very different in America […]
Weed is becoming more mainstream, with more people exclusively using cannabis products – here’s what you need to know about being ‘California sober’Cannabis, now legal in 24 states, is a $40bn industry in America. That may not be much compared to the $260bn alcohol market, but a shift is afoot. As booze trends down, with young people drinking less and beer sales in decline, sales of marijuana are creeping upward, and weed is becoming more mainstream – favored by senior citizens and stressed-out...
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EYEWITNESS NEWS (WBRE/WYOU) — A programming error cut short a televised Billy Joel concert for those watching it, including those watching on CBS affiliate WYOU. In a released statement, CBS says: A network programming timing error ended last night's Billy Joel special approximately two minutes early in the Eastern and Central Time Zones. We apologize []
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The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is an ecosystem unto itself, one that sustains tens of thousands of revelers over two full weekends of concertgoing, art-gazing and fashion-stunting. Here, the bathroom situation is what you’d expect: legions of portable toilets crisscrossing the festival grounds, and a precious few air-conditioned trailers with toilets scattered around the area (mostly in the VIP sections, of course). But longtime Coachella veterans know that there’s a game-changing...
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The rainy weather and gloomy skies have started to recede in the Chicago area, just in time for Monday's solar eclipse! Skies will be partly cloudy Monday night with a mild low near 47 degrees. A few clouds will appear in the morning on Monday but don't worry – they will soon give way to sunshine and temperatures that will top out near 70 degrees. Tuesday will also be pleasant, with partly cloudy skies and highs again near 70. Rain returns by mid-week, but temperatures will be in the 70s again...