8+ hour, 40+ min ago  (254+ words) Price increases are "exacerbating the financial condition of a lot of farms, an agricultural economist said, and farmers already were operating without much extra cash available. The Iran crisis hits Utah: Farmers struggle with soaring fuel and fertilizer costs "We…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago  (55+ words) Opinion: I predicted the 2008 financial crisis. What is coming may be worse.The Salt Lake Tribune Opinion: I predicted the 2008 financial crisis. What is coming may be worse. What appears to be disparate forces adding risk to our economy are…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (60+ words) Opinion: The big problem with tariffs isn't the rates. It's the corruption.The Salt Lake Tribune Opinion: The big problem with tariffs isn't the rates. It's the corruption. The president still has a lot of leeway to impose tariffs. That's…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1710+ words) (Tomi Um/The New York Times) It's bonus season on Wall Street, and a record-setting 2025 is yielding bigger paychecks than ever for America's investment bankers, thanks to their hard work doing, well, what exactly? Answering that question is surprisingly difficult…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (881+ words) (Maggie Shannon | The New York Times) A container ship at the Port of Los Angeles, in San Pedro, Calif. on Monday, April 7, 2025. Few things are more disconcerting than feeling the ground shift beneath you, as anyone who has experienced a…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (900+ words) (Luca Schenardi/The New York Times) Step into the casino that now passes for the American economy. Donald Trump campaigned on bringing back American manufacturing and rebuilding what America once was " factories, workers in hard hats " from the ground up....

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (459+ words) (Sammy Harkham/The New York Times) President Trump's Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago, set to the theme of "The Great Gatsby," reenacted the decadence of that story's licentious era: befeathered flappers shimmying in the crowd; gilded and onyx d'cor; scantily clad…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (299+ words) The sales tax in Utah is about 4.85%. It is a regressive tax because everyone pays the same amount for any given item. Income tax is a progressive tax because the more earned, the higher the tax rate. Tariffs are also…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (752+ words) A suburb in Austin, Texas on Jan. 12, 2025. (Mike Osborne/The New York Times) Housing is the foundation of the economy. Homes represent the single largest asset for most Americans. They are a vital source of wealth creation that supports consumer…...

6+ mon, 21+ hour ago  (964+ words) (Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Townhomes for rent and for sale are pictured at Francis Commons, a housing development in Summit County. A cut in federal interest rates won't necessarily mean better mortgage rates or lower prices for Utahns…...