TIME • 23rd August 2023 Who I’m Hurting By Shopping At Walmart Walmart's low prices are one reason captures one in four grocery dollars in America, but there’s an argument to be made that it comes by those prices unfairly because of its market power.
TIME • 14th March 2024 Why We're Spending So Much Money Fintech make spending easier than ever before— and there's growing evidence that it's making us shell out more than we realize.
TIME • 21st November 2023 Meet the Solar Sales Bros Why some door-to-door salesman over-promise and under-deliver, threatening the green energy transition.
TIME • 18th March 2024 Banks Aren't Doing Enough to Protect Customers From Scams As consumers lose more money to scams, banks aren't stepping up protections.
Time • 12th November 2021 The Great American Trucker Shortage Isn't Real Stop saying there's a driver shortage. It only makes conditions worse for drivers.
TIME • 13th June 2024 Defrauded? Banks May Not Give Your Money Back Banks are using a legal loophole to avoid returning money to defrauded customers.
Time • 17th August 2021 Why Is Everything More Expensive Right Now? I track a stuffed giraffe from the factory to my doorstep to explain supply chain bottlenecks and the roots of inflation.
TIME • 7th February 2022 The Problem With the Way We Train Truckers In most states, aspiring barbers have to spend 1,000 hours or more in training before they get a license. To drive a 40,000-pound truck, though, there’s no minimum behind-the-wheel driving time required, no proof of ability to navigate through mountains, snow, or rain.
Time • 2nd November 2021 How American Shoppers Broke the Supply Chain America has long been gobbling up more goods from overseas than we send back, but in the past year, spending has gone bonkers.
The Atlantic • 1st December 2017 The Never-Ending Foreclosure How can the country survive the next economic crash if millions of families still haven't recovered from the last one?
The Atlantic • 28th February 2018 This Is What Life Without Retirement Savings Looks Like Many seniors are stuck with lives of never-ending work—a fate that could befall millions in the coming decades.
The Atlantic • 5th March 2019 Is This the End of Recycling? Americans are consuming more and more stuff. Now that other countries won’t take our papers and plastics, they’re ending up in the trash.
The Atlantic • 21st August 2018 ‘We Are All Accumulating Mountains of Things’ How online shopping and cheap prices are turning Americans into hoarders
The Atlantic • 31st August 2018 The Online Gig Economy’s ‘Race to the Bottom’ When the whole world is fighting for the same jobs, what happens to workers?
