U.S. economists may be barely holding on by their fingernails over the current state of the American economy, but strangely, ...

Cut Report This monthly report counts and categorizes announcements of corporate layoffs based on mass layoff data from state ...

Ellen Van Loo, an expert in the field of consumer food behavior, has joined Purdue University’s Department of Agricultural ...

Best Buy CEO Corie Barry weighed in Tuesday on how she thinks consumers are behaving amid current economic conditions, calling their response "unsettled and uneven." During the company’s third-quarter ...

Studies show that flexing one’s muscles may help fight off—or possibly cause—wasteful impulse purchases, and other weird money findings. Here’s a roundup of some recent quirky research findings: For a ...

The Journal of Consumer Affairs seeks to make available high quality research on consumer behavior, consumer and household decision making, and the implications of private business practices and ...