International Monetary Fund predicts rise in global inflation, downgrades global growth outlook

The International Monetary Fund has cut its forecast for global growth, predicting a rise in global inflation and warning that the war with Iran is pushing growth lower compared to 2025. Medora Lee, money and personal finance reporter for USA Today, joins CBS News to discuss. Source link

AI-Driven SEO: A Smarter Approach to Organic Growth

SEO has become more complex over time. Search engines process more data, user behavior continues to evolve, and competition grows across every industry. Traditional methods still work, but they often require significant time and manual effort. This is where AI begins to change the landscape. It allows businesses to process data faster, identify patterns more … Read more

What falling wage growth says about where the U.S. economy is heading

Americans are getting smaller pay raises while tariffs and higher gas prices are threatening to make everything more expensive. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Translation: The affordability problem isn’t improving. New government data released Friday showed non-supervisory workers getting a 3.4% pay raise on average … Read more

Platform Coupling: How Social Licenses & Partnerships Shape AI Visibility – NoGood™: Growth Marketing Agency

When it comes to the AI search landscape, there is no “even playing field.” Like any industry with big investments, it’s all shaped by deals. When a brand asks why their YouTube content shows up in Perplexity but not ChatGPT, or why their X posts appear in Grok but nowhere else, the answer isn’t algorithmic … Read more

AI Agents for Marketing: Infrastructure Behind Autonomous Growth

Marketing technology has undergone three distinct shifts: from manual execution to rules-based automation, and now to intelligent autonomy. AI agents for marketing represent this third paradigm, systems that do not simply follow predefined instructions but interpret context, make decisions, and execute multi-step campaigns across channels with minimal human oversight. For B2B growth teams navigating complex … Read more

Growth rate slowed in US metro areas in 2025, with steepest drops along the southern border

Growth rates in U.S. metro areas dropped the steepest in communities along the U.S.-Mexico border last year because of declines in immigrants while counties along Florida’s Gulf Coast lost residents due to a series of hurricanes, according to new population estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau. The estimates showed that a majority of … Read more

Census shows population growth slowing in U.S. metro areas. Here’s where the steepest declines are.

The rate of population growth in U.S. metro areas diminished nationwide in 2025, with those along the U.S.-Mexico border seeing the steepest dropoffs, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The agency primarily attributed the losses to declining immigration as well as hurricanes that prompted people to leave parts of the Gulf Coast. The estimates showed … Read more

Goldman Sachs warns of spike in unemployment, slowed economic growth from Iran war

Since the start of the Iran war, gas prices have increased by 27%, and diesel prices have increased by 34%. Justin Wolfers, professor of public policy and economics at the University of Michigan, joins to examine the potential impact of the war on the overall economy. Source link

Economic growth late last year was much weaker than previously thought

New government economic data shows that U.S. economic growth was significantly weaker in the final three months of 2025 than previously reported. The nation’s gross domestic product — the total value of goods and services produced in the U.S. — expanded at a meager 0.7% annual pace in the fourth quarter, the Commerce Department said Friday. That … Read more

AI B2B Marketing Strategy Platforms for Organic Growth

B2B marketers face ongoing pressure to achieve measurable results with limited time and resources. As market trends shift, competition sharpens and budgets come under scrutiny, teams need tools that deliver maximum impact while minimizing manual intervention. More companies aim to boost organic reach and fill pipelines with high-quality leads, making the right use of technology … Read more