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Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
8 Items To Stock Up on Now in Case of Tariff-Induced Shortages
Plenty of Americans have felt 'tariff whiplash' over the last three months, given the speed of policy changes out of the White House. Amidst all the continued uncertainty, should you stock up on certain goods before tariffs drive up prices? Experts say the answer is yes. Read Next: For You: Consider boosting your supply of these items before import taxes make them more expensive — or unavailable entirely. If you need it, buy it now, said Babak Hafezi, founder of Hafezi Capital and professor of international business at American University. 'These shortages may be worse than the ones we experienced during COVID-19 and last longer if we do not resolve the trade war,' Hafezi added. Discover Next: The same goes for any pharmaceuticals your family requires. Many active pharmaceutical ingredients come from overseas, especially China and India. 'Consumers should purchase anything that is critical to them ahead of time, because it may become impossible to find,' Hafezi explained. Even prescription and over-the-counter medicines that you can still buy may spike in price as tariffs hit with full force. Less than 1% of the toys bought in the U.S. are actually produced here, according to Even more worrying for consumers? Around three-quarters of those toys come from China. The numbers get even more bleak for Christmas decorations. China produces 87% of America's Christmas decorations, per Reuters. In fact, the orders for holiday decor usually come in by now. But with 145% tariffs on imports from China, many U.S. companies have suspended their orders. Even if the world's two largest economies agree to a trade deal within the next 60 days, it may be too late for companies to catch up on their holiday supplies. 'Measuring cups, spatulas and food storage containers are usually imported and often replaced,' said Deidre Popovich, Professor of Marketing at Texas Tech University. Import duties will pinch supply and send prices upward, as companies pass the tariffs along to consumers. 'Buy extra containers, utensils, and anything that's looking worse for wear in the kitchen now,' Popovich added. George Carrillo, CEO of the Hispanic Construction Council, explained just how much of America's food comes from abroad. 'Grocery staples like tomatoes and avocados from Mexico will become pricier and possibly harder to find, driven by higher import duties and disrupted shipping. The same goes for coffee and chocolate from South America,' he said. His advice: stock up on essentials that last like olive oil, rice, canned goods and coffee and freeze produce like berries. Carrillo said most of our (currently) cheap apparel like socks, underwear and shoes come from tariff-hit countries. 'Nearly 38 percent of footwear imports to the U.S. come from China alone,' he said. Popovich also urged consumers to stock up on underwear and other apparel. 'Buy basics for growing kids, seasonal transitions, or to replace worn items now,' he explained. If your family includes four-legged members, you may want to stock up on supplies for them too. 'Leashes, grooming tools, toys and even some food packaging rely on imports. Consider doubling up on your go-to items or rotating in some backups now,' Carrillo said. Maybe the Trump Administration will finalize trade deals with countries like China soon. Or perhaps our everyday essentials will get dramatically more expensive. Consider hedging your bets by buying what you can now. Editor's note on political coverage: GOBankingRates is nonpartisan and strives to cover all aspects of the economy objectively and present balanced reports on politically focused finance stories. You can find more coverage of this topic on Sources Babak Hafezi, Hafezi Capita. Deidre Popovich, Texas Tech University. George Carrillo, Hispanic Construction Council. More From GOBankingRates Warren Buffett: 10 Things Poor People Waste Money On How Much Money Is Needed To Be Considered Middle Class in Every State? This article originally appeared on 8 Items To Stock Up on Now in Case of Tariff-Induced Shortages Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
New York Post
24-05-2025
- Sport
- New York Post
Gregg Popovich was ‘barely responding' during April medical incident, chilling 911 audio reveals
The 911 call from Gregg Popovich's April medical emergency has emerged. TMZ released audio of the incident on Friday, providing more details of the night the legendary Spurs coach fainted in a San Antonio steakhouse before being taken away in an ambulance. The man on the 911 call initially said a 'guest' was 'non-responding' before updating the dispatcher, saying Popovich was 'barely responding' and had 'passed out for a little bit.' Gregg Popovich reacts after a call by the official, during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024, in Salt Lake City. AP The incident reportedly occurred around 8:20 p.m. on April 15 after Popovich, who suffered a stroke before a game in November and was away from the team for the rest of the season, was reportedly 'alert and talking' by the time he reached the ambulance. Popovich had been inside the restaurant for two hours, and the incident was labeled a 'non-life-threatening injury or illness' at the time. A couple of weeks later, the Spurs announced that Popovich would be stepping down as the team's head coach and would transition into a full-time role as the team's president of basketball operations. 'While my love and passion for the game remain, I've decided it's time to step away as head coach,' Popovich said in a statement posted by the Spurs on May 2. 'I'm forever grateful to the wonderful players, coaches, staff and fans who allowed me to serve them as the Spurs head coach and am excited for the opportunity to continue to support the organization, community and city that are so meaningful to me.' Gregg Popovich unveils his clever new t-shirt that shows 'El Jefe' written on it. AP A few days later, during a press conference to announce Mitch Johnson as San Antonio's new head coach, Popovich flashed his familiar humor while taking the podium to pass the torch before unveiling a new T-shirt that displays the words 'El Jefe,' which translates from Spanish to 'the boss.' 'l'll have a new job and I just want to make sure everyone understands what that new job is,' Popovich said as he unzipped his jacket. 'I'm no longer a coach, I'm 'El Jefe.''
New York Post
17-05-2025
- Health
- New York Post
This restaurant trick doesn't really help you cut calories — and it can actually backfire
When it comes to your dinner order, knowledge might not be power. A new study suggests that a popular strategy aimed at helping people make smarter decisions while dining out isn't just ineffective — it could actually be making things worse. 'In some cases, it might even lead people to make less healthy choices,' Dr. Deidre Popovich, associate professor of marketing at Texas Tech University and lead author of the study, recently warned in The Conversation. Advertisement 4 The federal government requires calorie labels on menus at chain restaurants with 20 or more locations. Brian Jackson – Americans love a night off from the kitchen. A 2024 survey from US Foods found that the average adult eats at a restaurant nearly five times a month and orders takeout or delivery three times monthly. But convenience comes with a catch: these foods tend to be loaded with more calories, sodium and saturated fat than home-cooked dishes. Just one extra meal out each week can tack on around two pounds per year, according to the FDA. Advertisement To fight the ballooning obesity and diabetes crisis, New York City led the charge in 2008, becoming the first in the nation to require certain food establishments to post calorie information on menus and price boards. Ten years later, the federal government followed suit, mandating that all restaurants and fast-food chains with 20 or more locations nationwide do the same. The idea was simple: give people the facts, and they'll make smarter, healthier choices. But Popovich and her team found that in practice, the well-meaning plan might be backfiring. 4 People who frequently dine out are more likely to be obese than those who tend to eat at home. kanpisut – Advertisement In the study, researchers conducted nine experiments involving more than 2,000 participants to see how calorie information impacts people's perception of different foods. In one test, people were shown items like salads and cheeseburgers and asked to rate how healthy they thought each one was. When no calorie information was shown, most had no trouble spotting the big difference between healthy and unhealthy options. But once those numbers entered the picture, things got blurry — their judgments became way less extreme. 4 The study suggests calorie labels may cause people to second-guess their instincts about what's healthy. littlepigpower – Advertisement In another experiment, participants were asked to guess the calorie counts of different foods. That simple task rattled their confidence in knowing what's healthy — and that drop led them to rate everything more moderately. 'This pattern repeated across our experiments,' Popovich wrote. 'When people are asked to judge how healthy a food item is based on calorie data, that confidence quickly unravels and their healthiness judgments become less accurate.' The researchers found that in many cases, this meant people gave unhealthy foods a health boost — and unfairly knocked healthier options down a notch. Other studies have found calorie labels don't tend move the needle on what people order. But advocates argue that providing nutritional information is still valuable for those who want it. 4 Adding context, like nutrition scores, could make calorie labels more effective, researchers suggest. baranq – Popovich emphasized that her team's findings don't suggest calorie counts should be removed from menus — but she said they do need more context to be truly helpful. Advertisement 'Just because information is available doesn't mean it's useful,' she wrote. One fix Popovich suggested: pair calorie counts with visual tools like traffic light labels or overall nutrition scores — both already used in parts of Europe to make healthy choices easier. She also proposed adding reference points to show how much of a person's daily calorie intake a meal takes up — though that's not as simple as it sounds. Advertisement Daily calorie needs vary widely from person to person depending on factors such as age, sex, physical activity levels and overall health, making it tough to slap a one-size-fits-all number on the menu. Current US Dietary Guidelines recommend between 1,600 to 2,400 calories a day for women and 2,000 to 3,000 for men.
USA Today
10-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
LeBron James pays his respects to retiring head coach Gregg Popovich
LeBron James pays his respects to retiring head coach Gregg Popovich Gregg Popovich recently announced his retirement from coaching after he had been the San Antonio Spurs' head coach since the 1996-97 season. He guided the organization to five NBA championships despite a constant state of roster evolution, and he was the longest-tenured coach in the league. Popovich suffered a stroke earlier this season, which forced him to step away. On a recent episode of his "Mind the Game" podcast, LeBron James paid his respects to Popovich, who is one of basketball's greatest coaches ever. 'There's no way we even start this conversation without talking about Pop and what he means for the game and obviously for the NBA, San Antonio, West Point, all the stops that he had. To be able to cross paths -- we've crossed paths with Coach Pop so many times and I had one opportunity to actually play for him in the Olympics in 2004. And obviously going against him three times in the NBA Finals. What can you say? You talk about the superlatives when it comes to Coach Pop, his list is out of this world. But I think what a lot of people have found out if you ever got an opportunity to encounter a one-on-one with him or even just in crossing, how great of a [expletive] guy that guy is. And it makes sense with how unbelievable of a coach he was because of the person he was.' James' teams played against Popovich's Spurs in the NBA Finals three times, with the Spurs emerging victorious in two of those series. The superstar also played for Popovich when Popovich was an assistant to head coach Larry Brown for Team USA men's basketball during the 2004 Olympics. 'It was just the admiration. For me, I was just an 18-year-old kid and I got an opportunity to see it when they won a championship in '99 and then when they won it again I believe in 2003. So I already had admiration for Pop and his San Antonio teams. I was on the team, I was a young guy alongside Carmelo Anthony, we were young guys, Dwyane Wade, we were super young and to be a part of that team, obviously we didn't succeed like we wanted to succeed. But to be on a team with like Allen Iverson and Tim Duncan and Coach Pop, Larry Brown, that was just like another welcome to what greatness is all about. To see what Coach Pop has left this game as far as controlling the sidelines for as long as he did and the amount of wins that you just mentioned, the amount of championships, great players that he's seen come through the San Antonio franchise. It's just been a complete honor and for me to have a real personal relationship with him that every time I see him, it's just so much respect and so much honor. He definitely will be missed… Obviously we know health is most important, but we cannot shy away from the fact of what he was able to accomplish on the sidelines.' Mitch Johnson, who had been a Spurs assistant since the 2019-20 season, will now be the team's head coach moving forward. He filled in for Popovich starting in early November after the latter suffered a stroke, and he will now have a very promising team that includes star guard De'Aaron Fox, Rookie of the Year Stephon Castle and, of course, 21-year-old superstar center Victor Wembanyama.
Yahoo
08-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Gregg Popovich's Life Lessons
Last Halloween, not long after the kids finished trick-or-treating and got in bed, I settled on my couch to watch the San Antonio Spurs, my favorite basketball team. Five games into a new season, I was full of optimism. The team was a healthy mix of savvy veterans, young stars, and Victor Wembanyama, the most hyped NBA prospect since LeBron James. If the players found the right chemistry, perhaps this could be the year that the Spurs snapped an uncharacteristic playoff drought. And led by Gregg Popovich, a Hall of Fame coach who directed his players like a maestro conducting an orchestra, this scenario really did seem possible. That night, the Spurs won the game, Wembanyama had an insane stat line, and everything was looking up. But a few weeks later, I got the sinking feeling that it might have been Popovich's final hurrah. In mid-November, the Spurs announced that Popovich had suffered a mild stroke that would keep him off the sidelines for the foreseeable future. As the season progressed, he continued to stay away from the team. And on Friday, Popovich—or 'Pop,' as he is often called—announced that he would be stepping down as head coach after nearly 29 seasons at the helm, and transitioning into a full-time role as the team's president of basketball operations. Every Spurs fan had been mentally preparing for this moment since Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili, Tony Parker, and other defining players of the 21st century, all of whom Popovich had coached, hung up their sneakers one by one. Popovich himself is 76 years old, and Father Time is undefeated. But to realize that he was indeed mortal was heartbreaking. In the symphony of tributes that followed the announcement, I thought of one person: David Robinson, the first superstar to play with Pop. San Antonio is a military city with one major sports team, and Robinson, the U.S. Naval Academy graduate whose playing nickname was 'the Admiral,' was an informal figurehead. In October 2014, I attended a conference in a hotel ballroom outside of Austin where Robinson delivered a keynote address about leadership. Naturally, his speech turned to Pop. 'He's not afraid to be countercultural,' Robinson said. Mainstream basketball culture was self-congratulatory, but Pop's style, Robinson suggested, was to say, 'No, don't look at me.' Countercultural was exactly right, because Pop did things differently. In a league built around individual personalities, Pop created a winning team environment. He brought an internationality to the game—in terms of both the players he pursued and the style of basketball they played. Perhaps most important, he realized that although basketball is a game with winners and losers, the National Basketball Association is a business. Coaching was his job, not his life—a perspective he tried to inculcate in everyone, players and fans and sports journalists alike. Pop's global perspective came from his own background. He was born in Indiana to a Serbian father and a Croatian mother; for college, he attended the U.S. Air Force Academy and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Soviet studies. After his mandatory five years of service in the military, he began coaching at Pomona College in Southern California, where he became the head coach in 1979. He made himself at home, talking politics with students, popularizing something called a 'Serbian taco,' and playing intramurals with professors. Eventually, the Spurs came calling. By 1996, Popovich had risen through the organization to become the head coach. The next year, a series of unfortunate injuries—primarily to Robinson—meant the team was one of the worst in the league, giving them better odds in the NBA draft lottery, where they won the No. 1 pick: Tim Duncan. A native of the Virgin Islands, Duncan became the ideal linchpin for Popovich's tenure. Pop would later explain that Duncan was something of a soulmate—the one person he would prefer to have a conversation at dinner with over anyone else. 'He is the most real, consistent, true person that I have ever met,' Popovich once said. [Read: San Antonio, the Spurs, and me] To complement Duncan, Popovich ignored American high-school prodigies and blue-chip college prospects and instead drafted an array of unheralded international players who were a fit for his preferred style of play: cohesive, defense-first basketball that emphasized passing. No single player was bigger than the team. Pulling from his experience overseas, Pop's teams resembled the pass-heavy, positionless style of European soccer revolutionized by the Dutch legend Johan Cruyff. Players were essentially interchangeable, whipping the ball around quickly and dizzying opposing defenses. The result was basketball in its purest form. Players would pass up a good shot at the basket if it meant their teammate could take a great shot at the basket. Watching the Spurs offense, to me, felt like watching an artist at work—every brushstroke was intentional, and the finished product a masterpiece. (During Pop's time as coach, the Spurs ultimately won five championships.) Under Popovich, the Spurs drafted the French speedster Tony Parker and the Argentine dynamo Manu Ginóbili, whose respective 'teardrop' and 'Euro step' techniques were quickly emulated across the American game. The team's roster often resembled a United Nations conference, with other players from Slovenia, Brazil, Australia, and Italy. More than internationalizing the game, though, Pop brought perspective. Players gushed about his infamous dinners, where he covered the tab and let the wine flow freely. He cared about his players as people, and worked to develop relationships that would outlive anyone's tenure in the NBA. 'Winning the championship is great, but it fades quickly,' he once said. 'The satisfaction I get from Tony Parker bringing his child into the office, or some other player who came through the program and now I hired him as a coach and he's back—that's satisfying.' This style was uncommon, yet contagious. In the business of sports, it's natural to want to be the best at any cost—to be paid the most money, to get the most playing time, to win the most acclaim. But Popovich always behaved like his position was about more than just basketball. Pop isn't leaving the organization; still, this feels like an end, one that's tugged on every emotion for me. Pop was the only head coach of my favorite basketball team for as long as I've been able to watch the sport. When I saw the news on Friday, I messaged Allen, my best friend of almost 20 years, with whom I had been texting back and forth during the game on Halloween—Pop's last as the maestro. I offered the only words I could summon: 'Damn. Pop really retired.' Article originally published at The Atlantic
