Crocs, a favorite brand of Gen Z, is giving away free pairs of shoes in a contest to mark the brand's 20 years.
Why it matters: A new Morning Consult survey found the footwear company is more popular with people ages 18-25 favor Crocs than even their closest elders, particularly millennials, with whom they're often lumped in, Axios’ Jennifer A. Kingson reports.
The strong dollar might not actually be "wreaking havoc" around the world, as someheadline writers would have you believe.
Why it matters: Large swings in the dollar — in either direction — tend to destabilize corporate and central bank strategies. Stability and predictability are good things. Still, the strengthening greenback is welcome news to many constituencies.
A 1,260-pound spacecraft, traveling at 13,680 miles per hour, obliterated itself on Monday by smashing — deliberately — into an asteroid moonlet called Dimorphos.
Why it matters: The $324.5 million program, known as DART, is just part of the broader NASA project known as "planetary defense" — which, even now that DART is largely over, will continue to be funded to the tune of $142.7 million per year.
Credit bureaus want to score more Americans, by incorporating non-credit sources — timely rent payments, for instance — into their calculations.
Why it matters: A lot of for-profit companies have joined the bureaus in this space, invariably proclaiming high-minded ideals of financial inclusion. But as Stanford sociologist Barbara Kiviat tells Axios, "access to credit is the same thing as enabling people to become indebted."
