material goods

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Total remittances and material goods to the island amounted to $3 billion last year, according to Emilio Morales of the Havana Consulting Group, a Miami-based market-intelligence firm.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

While the relationship between money and happiness is typically framed as a choice between spending on material goods or spending on experiences, many Americans are expressing a different desire for their money: saving more.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 11, 2025

Giving Tuesday’s arrival days after Thanksgiving and Black Friday snaps us out of the funk brought on by consumption of food and material goods at peak levels.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 28, 2023

As Bob Batchelor wrote in his paper "Advertising in the 1920s," most Americans both had more financial success than they had in the previous decade and increasingly equated material goods with personal success.

From Salon • Mar. 13, 2023

The economic changes making material goods cheaper have forced businesses to seek out new opportunities so that they now market to groups they once ignored.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times