Monument Lab and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation have created a National Monument Audit. The researcher who wrote the report looked at over 50,000 “conventional” monuments in the 50 states and U.S. territories. The purpose of the work is to drive a better understanding of “dynamics and trends” and review […]

Chicago Fed President Charles Evans told CNBC on Tuesday that the current spate of inflation won't last and ultimately will fall below the central bank's target. Inflation has been at 3.6% year-over-year in the past couple of months, the highest since the early 1990s, according to the Fed's preferred gauge. […]

IHS Markit's final composite Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), seen as a good guide to economic health, sank to 56.2 last month from August's 59.0, although still well above the 50 mark separating growth from contraction and just above a 56.1 "flash" estimate. Demand fell to a five-month low as firms […]

Britain's National Grid dubs the 1.6 billion euro North Sea Link "the world's longest subsea electricity interconnector." The idea behind the NSL is for it to harness Norway's hydropower and the U.K's wind energy resources. In this article NG.-GB A 450-mile subsea cable which connects the U.K. and Norway, enabling […]

Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase chairman and CEO, remains a skeptic of bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency by market value. "It's got no intrinsic value. And regulators are going to regulate the h— out of it," Dimon recently told Axios CEO Jim VandeHei. Dimon said that bitcoin will be around long-term, but […]

Pal Joey, the notoriously tricky Rodgers and Hart musical with a score as lovely as its lead characters are thorny, is heading back to Broadway next year in a newly revised version to be co-directed by Tony Goldwyn and Savion Glover. Casting hasn’t been announced, but the revised Pal Joey […]

Facebook led a rout of tech stocks and broader market indexes Monday amid outages at its core services and news that the whistleblower behind a recent series of damning stories in the Wall Street Journal will testify before Congress tomorrow. Facebook shares were down by $324 or more than 5% […]

After more than a year of moving, job changes and makeups and breakups, many Americans are reeling from the financial impact of so many life changes at once. As a result, young adults, in particular, are increasingly anxious about the state of their personal finances. Americans have been hammered by […]

William Shatner is scheduled to launch on the next crewed spaceflight of Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin. Blue Origin plans to fly the Canadian actor, who famously played Captain Kirk in the original Star Trek television series, as one of the passengers on the company's New Shepard rocket. The launch is […]

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said Monday that it was possible that the euro area inflation could become stronger, but the risks of such a scenario were limited. “While inflation could prove weaker than foreseen if economic activity were to be affected by a renewed tightening of restrictions, there […]