Plus500 reports Valentine's Day spending reached $27.5 billion in 2025, reflecting consumer resilience despite inflation, with a shift towards experiential gifts and online shopping.

Explore how the guns-and-butter curve illustrates opportunity cost and economic trade-offs between military and domestic spending, with key historical examples.

Even when discussions in Congress grind to a halt, much of the government’s economic machinery keeps running. Social Security benefits still go out, student loan payments are collected, and essential ...

A partial shutdown of the federal government may begin at midnight barring action by Congress on a spending bill to fund operations which could spark concern over the economic impact, although it's ...

Hawai‘i Military and Community Relations Office recently released the “Military in Hawai‘i Economic Impact Factbook,” a ...

Johnson Consulting estimated the 2024 Farmington Fair generated $4.6 million in economic activity and more than $115,000 in ...

The USS Spruance leaves Naval Base San Diego on in March. (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Navy) The military supports nearly 357,000 local jobs and represents $61.3 billion of San Diego County’s economy, ...

Explore how deficit spending units operate, their effects on economies, and why they matter for households, businesses, and ...

The report prepared by UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service concluded that the University is a “major economic engine for the commonwealth,” directly or indirectly responsible for 1 in 85 ...

The hotel industry has generated $12 billion in economic activity, creating over 18,000 hotel jobs.

A new study finds the free meals program lowers daily household costs and improves children’s diets but has yet to change ...