When it came to wildfires, 2021 was an increasingly common kind of year in Montana: Flames consumed 747,000 acres, an area nearly the size of Long Island. About 2,700 of those acres were on Don Harland’s Sheep Creek Ranch, where ever-drier summers have turned lodgepole pines into matchsticks ready to ignite. After the smoke cleared,…
Wendy’s menu boards. Ben & Jerry’s grocery store freezers. Marketing by Abercrombie & Fitch. Many cornerstones of the American customer experience are increasingly based on artificial intelligence. The question is whether technology will actually make companies more efficient. A rapid increase in productivity is the dream of both companies and economic policymakers. If production per…
Few prices are as visible to Americans as the prices they find in the supermarket or at the drive-thru checkout. That’s why two years of rapid food inflation have been a major strain on U.S. households and the Biden administration. Shoppers have been slow to regain confidence in the economy as they pay more to…
