Honing your financial statistical literacy
June 16, 2025
What’s wrong with this sentence: “U.S. economic growth increased 1%, to 6% from 5%”? If you haven’t guessed already, you’re probably not alone. Confusing percentages
What’s wrong with this sentence: “U.S. economic growth increased 1%, to 6% from 5%”? If you haven’t guessed already, you’re probably not alone. Confusing percentages
President Donald Trump’s fondness for imposing tariffs on the United States’ trading partners raises many questions, in particular the question of who pays the price.
The inverted pyramid might be the classic model for structuring a news story, but it doesn’t work very well for business and financial news –
Last Monday, shares in Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. fell 21% after the company announced its annual results. Most media reports attributed the plunge
With all the recent talk about raising the U.S. government debt ceiling and a possible recession on the horizon, it’s a good time to revisit
If there’s one business news story that affects everyone, it’s inflation. Everyone is feeling it right now from grocery store to the gas pump. Inflation
The big business news of the day (so far, at least) is Microsoft’s near-$70 billion acquisition of video-game maker Activision. As Andrew Ross Sorkin and Michael J.
If there’s one business news story that affects everyone, it’s inflation. And the inflation figures announced January 12th by the U.S. Labor Department were stunning.
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