Economy

Inflation ticked down in January, the latest data released Friday from the Bureau of Economic Analysis shows. But it still remains well above the Federal Reserve’s target. The Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index (PCEPI), which…

I recently used economist Albert Hirschman’s Exit, Voice, and Loyalty to explain why Jacinda Ardern, the former prime minister of New Zealand, quietly relocated her family to Sydney. When 43,000 mid-career Kiwis choose exit over…

In the technology arms race between the United States and China for dominance in artificial intelligence (AI), we are often told that the decisive factor will be computational power: who can build more data centers,…

For decades, economists have warned about the risk of fiscal dominance. Over the past year, the topic has graduated to news headlines. At first glance, the US’s deteriorating fiscal situation appears to be the culprit.…

On February 20, the Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a stinging rebuke. In a 6-3 decision, the justices ruled that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) “contains no reference to tariffs or duties,”…

The rapid expansion of connected devices is pushing enterprises to rethink how machines communicate over wide geographic areas while maintaining energy efficiency and reliability. Cellular IoT technologies have emerged as a key enabler of this…

By Marc Kavinsky, Lead Editor at IoT Business News. With the EU Cyber Resilience Act set to make long-term security updates mandatory, Nordic Semiconductor is repositioning firmware maintenance as a predictable, upfront cost by introducing…

Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) has emerged as one of the cellular technologies specifically designed to address the connectivity needs of large-scale Internet of Things deployments. As industries deploy millions of connected sensors, meters and devices, traditional…

President Trump has nominated Kevin Warsh for the top spot at the Federal Reserve. Though a former member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, DC, Warsh is out of sync with prevailing…

In 2017, Candi Mentink and her husband, Todd Collard, of Calvin, Oklahoma, launched Caskets of Honor, an innovative business selling caskets wrapped in vinyl graphics to honor the deceased. Todd, a graphic designer, created designs…