Karen Webster

Washington Weekly Opens the Warren Buffett Playbook
Washington Weekly Opens the Warren Buffett Playbook
May 05, 2025  |  Economy

Warren E. Buffett’s recent announcement that he will retire as chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway at year-end ended one of the longest, most closely watched...

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When Chatbots Replace Search Bars, Who Wins at Checkout?
When Chatbots Replace Search Bars, Who Wins at Checkout?
May 05, 2025  |  artificial intelligence

Perplexity started it in November of 2024 with Buy with Pro. Then Open AI with ChatGPT followed in April 2025. These two large language models...

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What Pinball Tells Us About Spending in the Post-Tariff World
What Pinball Tells Us About Spending in the Post-Tariff World
April 07, 2025  |  Consumer Finance

It takes a lot to get most people to agree on anything. Even members of the same family have a hard time deciding what movie...

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Why the EV Dream May Be Crashing in America
Why the EV Dream May Be Crashing in America
March 17, 2025  |  Innovation

I have bad news for all of you on the waiting list for the all-electric Maserati MC20 Folgore. It’s been sunset before even seeing daylight....

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Who Is the Paycheck-to-Paycheck Consumer in America?
Who Is the Paycheck-to-Paycheck Consumer in America?
March 11, 2025  |  Consumer Finance

A six-figure income, a house in a nice neighborhood, two cars in the garage and kids in private schools — yet still feeling panicked when...

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CFPB, Crypto and Consumer Confidence: Inside DC’s Unpredictable Regulatory Storm
CFPB, Crypto and Consumer Confidence: Inside DC’s Unpredictable Regulatory Storm
March 03, 2025  |  Politics

If you’re tracking the mania in Washington, D.C., from a financial services perspective these days, you might notice that it’s starting to resemble a weather...

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Higher Prices and Fewer Choices: What American Consumers and Small Businesses Think About Tariffs
Higher Prices and Fewer Choices: What American Consumers and Small Businesses Think About Tariffs
February 19, 2025  |  Consumer Insights

The American consumer has been given a crash course in global trade over the last three weeks. On February 1, 2025, President Trump’s announcement of...

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Five Years Post-COVID, We’re Really Not Shopping (or Doing Much Else) Like It’s 2019
Five Years Post-COVID, We’re Really Not Shopping (or Doing Much Else) Like It’s 2019
January 22, 2025  |  eCommerce

Turns out, we can learn a lot of things about people by studying rats. When the scientific world wants to better understand human behavioral psychology,...

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The Big GenAI Time and Money Shift
The Big GenAI Time and Money Shift
January 13, 2025  |  artificial intelligence

The average consumer spends about 3 seconds when opening an app on their smartphone. Most open 10 different apps a day. Over the course of...

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