Category: Business
![Big Labor Gamble: Push to Unionize Every U.S. Auto Plant Big Labor Gamble: Push to Unionize Every U.S. Auto Plant](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/02/28/multimedia/00uaw-push-01-hwmz/00uaw-push-01-hwmz-facebookJumbo.jpg)
Big Labor Gamble: Push to Unionize Every U.S. Auto Plant
When Shawn Fain, the United Automobile Workers president, unveiled the deal that ended six weeks of strikes at Ford Motor in the fall, he framed…
![How 33-Year-Olds, the Peak Millennials, Are Shaping the U.S. Economy How 33-Year-Olds, the Peak Millennials, Are Shaping the U.S. Economy](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/03/03/business/03-33yearolds-cover-illo/03-33yearolds-cover-illo-facebookJumbo.jpg)
How 33-Year-Olds, the Peak Millennials, Are Shaping the U.S. Economy
I have covered economics for 11 years now, and in that time, I have come to the realization that I am a statistic. Every time…
![Shrinkflation 101: The Economics of Smaller Groceries Shrinkflation 101: The Economics of Smaller Groceries](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/02/29/business/00shrinkflation-sub/00shrinkflation-sub-facebookJumbo.jpg)
Shrinkflation 101: The Economics of Smaller Groceries
Grocery store shoppers are noticing something amiss. Air-filled bags of chips. Shrunken soup cans. Diminished detergent packages. Companies are downsizing products without downsizing prices, and…
![Wendy’s Plans to Introduce Dynamic Pricing Wendy’s Plans to Introduce Dynamic Pricing](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/02/27/multimedia/27xp-wendys-wvbl/27xp-wendys-wvbl-facebookJumbo.jpg)
Wendy’s Plans to Introduce Dynamic Pricing
Maybe you are the type who enjoys biting into a warm, spicy chicken nugget from Wendy’s, and at $5.99 for a 10-piece in Midtown Manhattan,…
![Housing Costs Are Running Hot, but Is the Data Missing a Cooling Trend? Housing Costs Are Running Hot, but Is the Data Missing a Cooling Trend?](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/02/26/multimedia/26housing-inflation-01-fbjl/26housing-inflation-01-fbjl-facebookJumbo.jpg)
Housing Costs Are Running Hot, but Is the Data Missing a Cooling Trend?
The Federal Reserve may have a housing problem. At the very least, it has a housing riddle. Overall inflation has eased substantially over the past…
![Claude Montana, Fashion Designer Whose Look Defined the ’80s, Dies at 76 Claude Montana, Fashion Designer Whose Look Defined the ’80s, Dies at 76](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/02/25/obituaries/23Montana1-print1/23Montana1-facebookJumbo.jpg)
Claude Montana, Fashion Designer Whose Look Defined the ’80s, Dies at 76
Claude Montana, the audacious and haunted French designer whose exquisite tailoring defined the big-shouldered power look of the 1980s — an erotic and androgynous tough…
![2 Years Into Russia-Ukraine War, U.S. Campaign to Isolate Putin Shows Limits 2 Years Into Russia-Ukraine War, U.S. Campaign to Isolate Putin Shows Limits](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/02/22/multimedia/2dc-russia-diplo-bpcz/2dc-russia-diplo-bpcz-facebookJumbo.jpg)
2 Years Into Russia-Ukraine War, U.S. Campaign to Isolate Putin Shows Limits
The Biden administration and European allies call President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia a tyrant and a war criminal. But he enjoys a standing invitation…
![Woman Sues Tomato Company, Saying Those Weren’t San Marzanos in the Can Woman Sues Tomato Company, Saying Those Weren’t San Marzanos in the Can](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/02/21/us/oakImage-1708523233742/oakImage-1708523233742-facebookJumbo.jpg)
Woman Sues Tomato Company, Saying Those Weren’t San Marzanos in the Can
San Marzano tomatoes are prized by chefs around the world for their intense flavor and are routinely recommended by recipe writers, but one woman in…
![For Michigan’s Economy, Electric Vehicles Are Promising and Scary For Michigan’s Economy, Electric Vehicles Are Promising and Scary](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/02/16/multimedia/00michigan-econ-01-hmwz/00michigan-econ-01-hmwz-facebookJumbo.jpg)
For Michigan’s Economy, Electric Vehicles Are Promising and Scary
Last fall, Tiffanie Simmons, a second-generation autoworker, endured a six-week strike at the Ford Motor factory just west of Detroit where she builds Bronco S.U.V.s….
![Kam Ghaffarian’s Moonshots – The New York Times Kam Ghaffarian’s Moonshots – The New York Times](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/02/18/multimedia/18Moon-1-qkgb/18Moon-1-qkgb-facebookJumbo.jpg)
Kam Ghaffarian’s Moonshots – The New York Times
Much of the American space program is run out of nondescript offices in the Washington, D.C., suburbs. That’s where Kam Ghaffarian, the billionaire space entrepreneur,…