…nearly every U.S. household purchased at least one-private label item this year. So, what’s driving this boom, and why are consumers choosing them over splashy brand names? “Private label brands have…

…I can safely and for sure tell you that food labeling is approved by the USDA and or the FDA. A small change in a label or packaging such as…

…pictures to get a feel for that disparity, based on the Integrated Macroeconomics Accounts (IMAs). They just show contributions to household wealth — additions to the asset side of household…

…information about products’ energy use. Label is voluntary, and Congress ordered it The Energy Star label is voluntary for products that meet certain efficiency levels, and differs from Department of…

Labeling for Increased Profits, Farmer and Economist, Michael Smith It is a well-known marketing ploy to label, relabel, and even mislabel a product again and again to increase sales. We…

…of thrift Imagine firms and households each have $1T in assets. There’s $2T total. Then firms pay households $1T in wages and dividends, and households pay firms $900B for stuff…

…asset class, or category. Deposits and cash are financial instruments, assets. Here’s part of the US Household sector’s balance sheet (“currency” here means physical currency): This is where confusion often…

…is often no longer enough to sustain the typical household, and that as manual labor’s share of the workforce has fallen retiring later has become more and more feasible. Since…

…between the empirical world of markets and the putative substrate of “utility”. In the end, the reason for attaching a label like economics to some portion of human activity is…

…FTC says the deal — the largest proposed supermarket merger in U.S. history — would hurt competition and lead to high prices for groceries and other household items for millions of Americans….