Reinventing Valentine’s Day It’s Valentine’s Day, but before you roll your eyes, get this: It’s no longer just a holiday for lovey-dovey couples. In fact, with nearly half of U.S. adults being single per the U.S. Census Bureau retailers are setting their sights on a perhaps surprising demographic. Retailers Adjust If Valentine’s Day isn’t just…Read more
Starting from Hero, Got Nothing to Lose Tracy Chapman’s return to the stage to perform her 1988 song “Fast Car” made major Grammy headlines this week. Given the splash of the entire awards show, some other big 2024 Grammy moments are sprinkled throughout the paragraphs that follow because, well, music is life. I replaced “zero”…Read more
Macro It was an eventful start to the new year for stocks and the economy. Here’s what went down in January. Some would say it has been a long time coming, but the S&P 500 finally hit new all-time highs in January. Economic growth was strong in the fourth quarter of 2023, with gross domestic…Read more
