Brand Loyalty Takes a Hit From Inflation, Shortages
U.S. shoppers are buying what they can find—and afford. Well-known brand names and flashy ad campaigns are no longer enough to command U.S. consumers’ loyalty...
Biden Sticks With Longstanding U.S. Policy on Use of Nuclear Weapons Amid Pressure From Allies
President Biden, stepping back from a campaign vow, has embraced a longstanding U.S. approach of using the threat of a potential nuclear response to deter...
What Sanctions Mean for Russia’s $140 Billion in Gold
The U.S. is clamping down on Russia’s ability to sell its gold reserves and raise money, the latest effort to cripple the country’s war chest...
War in Ukraine Is Already Taking Its Toll on Global Food Supplies
Ukrainian farmer Igor Borisov has 2,000 metric tons of corn from the fall harvest stuck in a warehouse behind Russian battle lines. Like other farmers...
Americans Are Having an Inflation ‘Aha’ Moment
The fastest climb in inflation of the last four decades became real for Matthew Rivera when he ordered a plate of chicken wings last month...
Is the Dollar in Danger?
The U.S. is sitting on top of a horizontal empire, capitalism’s self-organizing, incentive-based structure with its layers of value. It’s not the Marxist mush of...
NY Fed: Public’s Near-Term Inflation Expectations Again Hit Record in February
Households’ expectations of the near-term future path of inflation surged back to record levels in February, amid growing worries that it will become harder to...
The Inflation Hits Just Keep Coming, Raising Stakes for the Fed
For the Federal Reserve, the hits driving inflation keep piling up. Escalating sanctions by the West to punish Russia for its war against Ukraine are...
It’s Joe Biden’s Inflation – WSJ
A sign shows gas prices outside a gas station in Washington D.C. on March 10. Photo: mandel ngan/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Inflation keeps rising, and working...
The Fed Needs to Put Its Eye on the Money Supply
As recently as September 2021, half of the Federal Open Market Committee expected no change in the federal-funds rate throughout 2022, and not a single...