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Ben Fox Rubin

  • VP, Editorial Content, Mastercard
New York
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eBay’s sustainability chief on the power of secondhand stuff

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By Ben Fox Rubin
| Inside the Circles
“Recommerce” is having a moment. Secondhand sales are now growing faster than traditional retail in several categories and regions, according to a Mastercard report coming out later this week called “The next era of conscious consumption.” The two biggest reasons for this trend are financial — people are looking for ways to save money — and environmental: They also want to save the planet.
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How AI, cyber and spending habits are changing everything about consumers today

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By Ben Fox Rubin
| Inside the Circles
This new capability points to a future in which agentic commerce goes far beyond AI-assisted checkout and enables super-fast chains of microtransactions. "Twenty-twenty-six, within payments, is kind of a year of punctuation. Things are really shifting, new paradigms are being created,” Lambert said.
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Amid an uncertain world, travelers shift plans but not intent

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By Ben Fox Rubin
| Inside the Circles
The travel economy this year is defined by one word: adaptability. Amid geopolitical tensions and higher fuel prices, consumers and businesses are showing how they are changing their travel behaviors in response to a constantly changing world, according to the Mastercard Economics Institute’s latest edition of its annual travel report, which published Tuesday. “We are in a world of high uncertainty and have been for some time,” said Michelle Meyer, Mastercard’s chief economist.
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