Go to any third world country and you see a remarkable similarity in the economic makeup of its people. Every third world country, with no exceptions that I know of, print up oodles of their currency ...

The next chapter in the story of the haves and the have-nots in Silicon Valley is being written. On one side is a new group riding a booming market to record heights, and on the other side is a ...

The results of the altoonamirror.com Web Poll that appeared in the Jan. 10-11, 2026 edition of the Mirror caught my attention with particular reference to the word “affordability.” Affordability, as ...

Consumer sentiment is “treading water,” with a growing divide between the haves and the have-nots, according to Joanne Hsu, director and chief economist of the University of Michigan Surveys of ...

Consumer stocks are falling out of favor with US investors. The sector is up a modest 0.3% this year, making it second-worst-performing sector in the S&P 500 this year, ahead of only Health Care (XLV) ...

Nigerian women who are wealthier, more educated and urban are more likely to use modern contraceptives than poorer, less educated and rural women. This is one of the findings of a study that assessed ...