US consumer confidence continues to fall amid fears of inflation and concerns over President Donald Trump’s aggressive push-reversal-push on tariffs. Purchases of luxury goods, including wine, are notable silver linings. Kathleen Willcox reports. Broadly, wine sales in the US are down -3.6% year over year according to Nielsen data for the past four weeks. However, price declines in the fine wine secondary market appear to have bottomed out, according to wine retailers and investment houses...

There has been a broad push in the United States to eliminate corporate policies that encourage diversity and inclusion. But which drinks brands are standing strong, and which are bouncing DEI initiatives out of the boardroom? Kathleen Willcox reports. When President Donald Trump blamed a fatal crash between a passenger plane and an Army helicopter in Washington, D.C. on the Federal Aviation Administration’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policy, it felt like a nail in the coffin to...