This year's holiday travel season is going to be as chaotic as pre-pandemic levels
The holiday travel season is underway, and It stands to be just as busy as pre-pandemic times.
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How inflation may impact your holiday spending
Michelle Singletary, personal finance columnist with the Washington Post, discusses how people should approach holiday shopping in the current economic climate.
Homebuyers are losing big deposits because of rising mortgage rates
Before mortgage rates rose, many people put down big deposits to buy houses that weren't built yet. Now rates have gone from 3% to 7% and they can't afford to buy the homes they agreed to buy.
The fallout from FTX's collapse is being felt across the crypto industry
The fallout from the collapse of the FTX Cryptocurrency Exchange is being felt across the crypto industry, raising concerns about contagion.
FTX's new CEO reveals just how big a mess he's dealing with
John Ray, FTX's new CEO, handled the bankruptcies of Enron and Nortel. But he says the mess he has inherited is "unprecedented."
High demand and prices for lithium send mines into overdrive
Demand for batteries has sent lithium prices soaring. But building new mines is controversial and time-consuming. So existing mines are hitting overdrive and boosting production as much as they can.
Fears of crypto contagion are growing as another company's finances wobble
After the collapse of FTX, many are wondering if another cryptocurrency platform called Genesis will fall next.
How Twitter became one of the world's preferred platforms for sharing ideas
As the social media platform struggles to find a way forward, NPR surveys key moments in its history.
To retire, or not to retire? A journalist goes on quest to figure out what's next
Independence Day author Steve Lopez turned the issue of retirement into a reporting project, speaking to geriatric experts, a psychiatrist, a rabbi, plus people who have retired and some who refuse.
News brief: Colorado shooting, railroad contract, Thanksgiving meal costs
Latest on the Colorado LGBTQ club shooting. Unions reject a deal brokered by the White House to keep trains running. How much more will a Thanksgiving meal cost? Depends on who's doing the estimate.