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Americans' use of plastic boomed during the pandemic, including mountains of single-use items such as takeout containers, plastic bags and, of course, face masks. At the same time, we're recycling less of this waste than in the past, according to a pair of recent studies.

In January, buzzy B2B financial-services startup MainStreet flew its entire staff to Maui for a weeklong working vacation at a glitzy Hawaiian resort.

An opulent new neighbourhood has emerged over the past decade on the west side of midtown Manhattan, where angular glass office towers, condos and a luxury mall now perch above an old rail yard.

Any successful politician is adept at finding the one bit of good news floating in the ocean of despair, then gushing about it to try to drown our worries. So it is with U.S. President Joe Biden.

Let’s role-play. It’s March 2021. You’re 23, a year out of college. Your last semester was ruined by the pandemic, but now you’ve got a job with a firm that’s “reinventing commerce” in a loft with reclaimed wood and catered lunches.

In recent months, the burgeoning unionization drives at companies such as Amazon and Starbucks have provided some of the only encouraging political news in this dreary, fussy year in American life.

Braydon Hooper is ready to buy a home. He wants a two-bedroom, two-bathroom condo in Toronto and is anticipating getting a good deal as the city’s real estate market adjusts to rising interest rates and plummeting sales.

The most positive financial development of 2022 so far is the end of the housing frenzy. House prices went up too much, too fast. A lot of money has been made in real estate and a lot of economic activity generated, but we need a pullback to restore a degree of economic rationality.

Elon Musk has made a deal to buy Twitter, but will his acquisition of the social media platform make him a boss or a bag holder?

The housing market cooldown prompted by rising interest rates is being felt more acutely in the suburbs of Toronto, where sales and selling prices are trending downward into the summer at a fast pace.

Gus Carlson is a New York-based columnist for The Globe and Mail. We know there’s no crying in baseball thanks to Jimmy Dugan, the gruff fictional coach played by Tom Hanks in the 1992 comedy film A League of Their Own.

Your browser does not support the <audio> element. America’s Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point, lifting it to a target range of 0.75% to 1%. It was the biggest increase since 2000.

In 2014, I walked away from my $35,000-per-year job in insurance sales to grow my e-commerce side hustle with my husband Chris. We had been experimenting with selling clothes and accessories on online marketplaces, including eBay and Facebook.

No offence to the build-more-houses crowd, but the quickest path to more affordable housing is lower prices. Correction: Much lower prices. As mortgage rates rise, affordability can worsen even as prices fall.

When golf tournaments promise big cash prizes for holes-in-one, they turn to niche insurers to protect against a stroke of luck.