Current：Home > NewsAmericans don't like higher prices but they LOVE buying new things -TradeCircle
Americans don't like higher prices but they LOVE buying new things
View
Date：2025-04-24 12:40:03
Eight times a year, regional Federal Reserve Banks release a collection of anecdotes that reveal stories about the economy. These stories come together in what's known as the "Beige Book," and we award the regional bank with the best entry with our coveted Beigie Award. Today, we're highlighting an entry that gets to the heart of the contradictions we're seeing when it comes to consumer preferences and sentiment.
For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.
Music by Drop Electric. Find us: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Newsletter.
veryGood！ (7181)
Related
- Federal appeals court upholds $14.25 million fine against Exxon for pollution in Texas
- Days of Our Lives Actor Cody Longo's Cause of Death Revealed
- Inflation cooled in June to slowest pace in more than 2 years
- Why higher winter temperatures are affecting the logging industry
- The Super Bowl could end in a 'three
- Former Top Chef winner Kristen Kish to replace Padma Lakshmi as host
- Historic floodwaters begin to recede as Vermont dam stabilizes after nearing capacity
- Tom Cruise's stunts in Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One presented new challenges, director says
- Louvre will undergo expansion and restoration project, Macron says
- A 20-year-old soldier from Boston went missing in action during World War II. 8 decades later, his remains have been identified.
Ranking
- Why we love Bear Pond Books, a ski town bookstore with a French bulldog 'Staff Pup'
- Activists See Biden’s Day One Focus on Environmental Justice as a Critical Campaign Promise Kept
- Inside Clean Energy: Coronavirus May Mean Halt to Global Solar Gains—For Now
- China's economic growth falls to 3% in 2022 but slowly reviving
- Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword puzzle, Triathlon
- The Atlantic Hurricane Season Typically Brings About a Dozen Storms. This Year It Was 30
- Twitter auctioned off office supplies, including a pizza oven and neon bird sign
- Ditch Drying Matte Formulas and Get $108 Worth of Estée Lauder 12-Hour Lipsticks for $46
Recommendation
San Francisco names street for Associated Press photographer who captured the iconic Iwo Jima photo
Jennifer Lopez's Sizzling Shirtless Photo of Daddy Ben Affleck Will Have You on the Floor
Protein-Filled, With a Low Carbon Footprint, Insects Creep Up on the Human Diet
DWTS’ Peta Murgatroyd and Maksim Chmerkovskiy Welcome Baby Boy on Father's Day
'Kraven the Hunter' spoilers! Let's dig into that twisty ending, supervillain reveal
Forests of the Living Dead
Torrential rain destroyed a cliffside road in New York. Can U.S. roads handle increasingly extreme weather?
-
DWTS’ Peta Murgatroyd and Maksim Chmerkovskiy Welcome Baby Boy on Father's Day