Discover how inflation, unemployment, interest rates, and consumer confidence drive demand for consumer goods.

Business owners know they don't have total control over how much they can charge for the goods and services they sell. Your prices are set as much by market forces as by your discretion. When those ...

One plausible explanation of the tendency for stocks and oil prices to move together is that both are reacting to a common factor, namely, a softening of global aggregate demand, which hurts both ...