Norway has the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, but it's facing a self-imposed dilemma. Should the fund's investments include companies that contribute to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war?
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Character.AI collected millions of users, making it a very appealing acquisition. Google took a unique route to "acquiring" it, hiring away its founders and licensing its technology. Now Character.AI is filing for bankruptcy. Here's what to know.
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The latest tough inflation report reinforces the challenge for President Trump and GOP candidates ahead into the midterm elections.
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NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Austan Goolsbee, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, about the inflation data that was released on Wednesday.
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Consumer prices in September jumped 3.7% from a year ago. The Social Security Administration said benefits will increase next year to help keep pace with the rising cost of living.
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High food prices are pushing some older adults to make difficult budget decisions when it comes to what's available to eat. That can mean scaling back on produce in favor of cheaper, processed foods and relying more on food pantries
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Prices can get sticky. That helps explain why recessions hurt so much — and what policymakers can do about them.
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This year's Nobel Prize for economics was awarded to two Americans, for their work on ways to limit booms and busts in the business cycle.
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Two Americans have won the Nobel Prize in economics for their work on how to smooth boom-and-bust cycles to limit unemployment and inflation.
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NPR's Joel Rose speaks with Lindsay Owens, president of the economic think tank Groundwork Collaborative, about how companies using data to transform the products and prices customers see.
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