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The Conversation - Business

Energy costs are high and unaffordable – what utilities, governments, communities and you can do to help save consumers money - Sanya Carley, University of Pennsylvania; Alexandra Klass, University of Michigan; Alison L. Knasin, University of Pennsylvania; David Konisky, Indiana University, and Shelley Welton, University of Pennsylvania

2 days ago

Soaring US beef prices likely to rise further thanks to trade tensions and disease outbreaks -- Andrew Muhammad, University of Tennessee and Charles Martinez

2 days ago

How businesses with ties to Jeffrey Epstein saw norms – and even share prices – suffer -- Michaela Pagel, Washington University in St. Louis

11 days ago

The 'right to repair' movement has a point, but consumers should read the warranty fine print first -- Wayne Fu, University of Michigan-Dearborn

6 days ago

SpaceX raised $75B in record IPO – here's why insiders like Elon Musk are much likelier than public stock buyers to get rocket-powered returns these days -- Brad Badertscher, University of Notre Dame

4 days ago

New SNAP rules requiring that benefits be used at stores selling healthier food could backfire -- Benjamin Chrisinger, Tufts University

1 month ago

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4 months ago

Emerging Houthi–Al-Shabaab co-operation and the growing threat to Red Sea shipping -- Brendon Novel, Université de Montréal

19 days ago

What's in the price of a gallon of gas? -- Robert I. Harris, Georgia Institute of Technology

1 month ago

War in the Middle East made the case for renewables – what's happening in each country tells a harder story -- Ezgi Canpolat, Harvard University

2 months ago

UAE's OPEC exit has been long in the works – and may mark the beginning of a Gulf realignment -- Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Rice University

1 month ago

Global supply chains cause environmental harm, but they can help repair it too -- Minelle Silva, University of Manitoba; Jia Yen Lai, Monash University, and Lee Matthews, University of Nottingham

1 month ago

Read more about the war in Iran

2 months ago

The Social Security trust fund will run dry in 2032 – what that means for retirees and workers who hope to retire -- John W. Diamond, Rice University

12 days ago

When private equity firms buy mobile home parks, rent increases leave residents with few affordable options in rural areas -- Erin Gaede, University of Wisconsin-Madison

18 days ago

When ICE ramped up enforcement, US-born workers didn't see any economic gains -- Chloe N. East, University of Colorado Boulder and Elizabeth Cox, University of Colorado Boulder

19 days ago

US mortgage rates are staying high – and the Fed can do very little about it -- Michael J. Highfield, Mississippi College; Mississippi State University

16 days ago

It's not just high gas prices – inflation is now spreading through the US economy -- D. Brian Blank, Mississippi State University and Brandy Hadley, Appalachian State University

23 days ago

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1 year ago

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1 year ago

You've been trying to get around Amazon – but it's not that easy -- Yuanyuan (Gina) Cui, Coastal Carolina University and Patrick van Esch, Coastal Carolina University

26 days ago

Clinical trials that are actually marketing ploys targeting doctors – how seeding trials put profit over patients -- Sukhun Kang, University of California, Santa Barbara; Ivan Lin, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Sungyong Chang, Cornell University

1 month ago

AI data center boom is leaving consumer electronics short of chips − even though they don't use the same kinds -- Vidya Mani, University of Virginia; Cornell University

1 month ago

Perseverance doesn't always pay off for companies – sometimes it's better to 'fail fast' -- Scott Friend, University of Dayton and Kumar Rakesh Ranjan, EDHEC Business School

1 month ago

Companies are hyping AI the same way they talked up sustainability, but there are ways to fix that -- Suvrat Dhanorkar, Georgia Institute of Technology

1 month ago

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1 year ago

Most American workers are checked out, and like 'The Office,' their bosses are the last to know -- Bob Batchelor, Coastal Carolina University

4 days ago

So your new 'co-worker' is an AI agent – here's how to make the best of your human-machine relationship -- Nigel Melville, University of Michigan

1 month ago

For the nearly 1 in 4 US adults with chronic pain, employers' expectations of a healthy body can lead to shame -- Beth Schinoff, University of Delaware and Elana Feldman, UMass Lowell

2 months ago

Hybrid work is not always the golden compromise employees expect – even as more companies implement it -- Radostina Purvanova, Drake University and Alanah Mitchell, Drake University

16 days ago

Workplace relief is coming for employees with symptoms of menstruation, perimenopause and menopause in Philly -- Ann Juliano, Villanova University

2 months ago

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1 year ago

Your bank's AI just blocked your payment – what can you do? -- Pragati Awasthi, Drexel University

23 days ago

What oil, stocks and bonds are telling us about the Iran conflict and how long it might last -- Daniele D'Alvia, Queen Mary University of London

3 months ago

How personal finance advice is getting political, thanks to 'finfluencers' -- Maximilian Brichta, University of Virginia

1 month ago

How polling failures, gambling legalization and political gridlock paved the way for the explosive rise of prediction markets -- Parker Bach, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2 months ago

International aid groups are dealing with the pain of slashed USAID funding by cutting staff, localizing and coordinating better -- Sarah Stroup, Middlebury College and Jennifer Hadden, Brown University

4 months ago

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1 year ago

America's nonprofit sector is pushing back against an 'authoritarian playbook' -- Christopher Justin Einolf, Northern Illinois University

26 days ago

Nonprofit fraud: Amid high-profile prosecutions, an accountant explains what's really going on -- Sarah Webber, University of Dayton

1 month ago

Why Americans give: New research finds 5 distinct profiles for generosity -- George E. Mitchell, Baruch College, CUNY

2 months ago

Trump administration's indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center breaks with norms – and may lack evidence of criminal wrongdoing -- Beth Gazley, Indiana University

1 month ago

Getting $750 a month didn't end homelessness – but our study shows it still improved the lives of homeless people -- Benjamin F. Henwood, University of Southern California

2 months ago

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1 year ago

Trump proposes putting political goals above objective criteria in deciding who gets government grants, from childcare to research to public safety -- Mirae Kim, George Mason University

6 days ago

Why Michael Jackson's daughter, Paris, won't stop 'til she gets enough from his estate -- Reid Kress Weisbord, Rutgers University - Newark and Naomi Cahn, University of Virginia

2 months ago