Alina Selyukh

1 month ago | boisestatepublicradio.org | Alina Selyukh

How are you budgeting these days? Whether you're a shopper or seller, a worker or a business owner, you likely have a lot on your mind. Mortgage and insurance rates remain high. Inflation is stubborn. President Trump has added new tariffs on Chinese imports. He's imposed, delayed, re-imposed and re-delayed new levies on goods from the United States' two other closest trading partners, Canada and Mexico. Gas prices are down, but those egg prices ... well, you know.

1 month ago | boisestatepublicradio.org | Alina Selyukh |Nate Schweber

Forever 21 is back on the auction block. Once a formidable fast-fashion mall staple, Forever 21's parent company filed for bankruptcy protection late Sunday. It plans to "wind down" its U.S. operations unless it can find a buyer for the whole business or some of its parts. The retailer has been a shell of its former self since it first filed for bankruptcy in 2019.

1 month ago | kuow.org | Alina Selyukh

The Federal Trade Commission building is seen in Washington, D.C. AP On a a call about the government's major lawsuit against Amazon, a federal lawyer began making startling disclosures. The Federal Trade Commission is in a "dire resource situation," FTC lawyer Jonathan Cohen said earlier this week, asking the federal judge to delay the trial. Some people on the case team have resigned by accepting the DOGE team's "Fork In the Road" offer, he said, and hiring is frozen.

1 month ago | laist.com | Alina Selyukh

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1 month ago | laist.com | Alina Selyukh

What came first: America's obsession with Halloween or Party City? Steve Mandell launched Party City in 1986 as a single store in New Jersey. He sold cups, napkins and other supplies for birthday and holiday get-togethers. But it was the costumes that became the goldmine. "I never expected Halloween to be anything like it," Mandell says. "After my first year in the business, I said, 'Wow!'"Fast forward 39 years and Party City is sweeping away the confetti and turning off the lights.