What Is 'Slow Shopping'?
From TikTok Shop and targeted Instagram ads to influencer hauls and product roundups, our modern commercial landscape allows consumers to spend half their paychecks in mere minutes.
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What You Should Know About 'Stealth Shopping'
Funflation. Slow shopping. Loud budgeting. We live in an age where there’s a quippy term for seemingly every personal finance habit and trend.
What Is Chancellor Rachel Reeves Cutting To Deal With The "Black Hole" She Inherited?
Winter fuel allowance payments will become means tested and hospital and transport projects scaled back, as Rachel Reeves laid out her plans to tackle a "£22billion hole in the public finances".
Labour's Tax Crackdown Could Be Dampened By "Bigger Public Finance Challenge", Economists Warn
Economists have said Labour plans to clamp down on tax avoidance will do little to ease the tight fiscal picture on public spending the party is facing if it wins the general election later this year.
Congressional leaders come out with 6 spending bills in a drive to avoid a partial shutdown
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional leaders on Sunday came out with a package of six bills setting full-year spending levels for some federal agencies, a step forward in a long overdue funding process beset by sharp political divisions between the two parties as well as infighting among House Republicans.
Judge puts brakes on new law banning foreign government spending on referendums
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A federal judge is delaying the implementation of a voter-approved law in Maine that aimed to close an election law loophole by stopping foreign government spending on state referendum races.
President Joe Biden signs short-term spending bill to avoid partial government shutdown
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday signed a short-term spending measure that keeps one set of federal agencies operating through March 8 and another set through March 22 — officially staving off a partial government shutdown that would have started on Sunday.
Republican rivals to Robinson report spending surge in North Carolina governor’s race
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Rivals to North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson in Tuesday’s Republican gubernatorial primary outspent his campaign in the first seven weeks of 2024, according to finance reports that were due this week.