Dean Richards, Dave Schwan, and Andy Masur start this week by talking about how they’ve spent their St. Patrick’s Day weekend ...

Pictures from today’s Far Flung Forecast down in Shamrock, Texas from Dave Schwan. Pictures from Shamrock, Texas, featuring the Tower Gas Station and the U-Drop-Inn Café.  The building dates from ...

Years of Experience is the number of years an individual is registered as an investment advisor only, rather than combined years of experience as either an investment advisor or broker.

Investopedia / Julie Bang A sales tax is a consumption tax imposed by the government on the sale of goods and services. A conventional sales tax is levied at the point of sale (POS), which is ...

Although Black Friday is still the best time to buy almost everything, many other seasonal sales events have become almost as big in recent years. With pretty much every retailer planning some ...

Retail sales volumes (quantity bought) are estimated to have risen by 1.7% in January 2025. This follows a fall of 0.6% in December 2024 (revised down from a fall of 0.3% in our last bulletin). Food ...

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President’s Day weekend may have ended, but don’t fret: plenty of sales are still live, offering excellent discounts. The REI sale still has great deals to shop, with markdowns on everything ...

Not long ago, two colleagues and I found ourselves in an online meeting, cornered by three wildly overzealous sales professionals. They were selling a tool my company was evaluating, and their ...

Retail and food sales made their largest monthly drop in January since March 2023, marking an end to the buying surge that took off in the run-up to the 2024 election. Sales fell by 0.9 percent to ...

New data out Friday showed retail sales declined more than expected in the first month of 2025. Headline retail sales fell 0.9% in January, more than the 0.2% decline economists had expected ...