• BlackRock's Fink: Spending in 'Inflation Reduction Act' Will Make It Harder to Lower Inflation

    On Friday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street,” BlackRock CEO Larry Fink stated that it will be difficult to reach 2% inflation and one reason is “We have a trillion dollars of fiscal stimulus in the CHIPS Act, the

  • White House: PPI Inflation Hitting 11-Month High 'Tempers' Worries, 'Inflation Has Been Coming Down'

    On Thursday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” White House Council of Economic Advisers member Heather Boushey stated that the March PPI inflation data, which showed the highest level in almost a year, “tempers” worries in the wake of the

  • Slave to Reality

    “Blue-eyed white devils” are not very popular nowadays. At least not with a recent migrant thrown off an airline flight for calling his fellow travelers thus. The man was drunk, or he might have been a New York Times reader. Or watched network news, especially NBC, because he really had it in for white people. […]

  • Marshall Ramsey: Negotiations

    As a nonprofit newsroom,

    • WNYC

    Jobs, Inflation & Politics

    John Cassidy, New Yorker staff writer and columnist on politics and economics, talks about the better-than-expected jobs report, the worse-than-expected inflation report and how both parties are responding to the perception and reality of the U.S. economy.

    • KHON2

    Inflation surges in March

    New monthly inflation numbers show consumer costs running hotter than expected. Gas, rent and car insurance largely drove overall inflation higher.

  • Inflation surges in March

    New monthly inflation numbers show consumer costs running hotter than expected. Gas, rent and car insurance largely drove overall inflation higher.

  • Inflation surges in March

    New monthly inflation numbers show consumer costs running hotter than expected. Gas, rent and car insurance largely drove overall inflation higher.

    • Time

    How Virtual Reality Could Transform Architecture

    Some architects believe virtual reality will lead to more efficient and effective design. Others see it as little more than a gimmick.

  • No inflation here: The Masters menu and why is it so cheap?

    Part and parcel of going to live sport is paying through the roof for food and drink before getting trapped in a merchandise shop and pressured into spending millions of dollars on shirts, bucket hats and umbrellas. But at the Masters, which take place across this weekend, that’s not necessarily the case.

  • March Inflation: Cause for Worry?

    The inflation hawks took March’s CPI as cause for celebration, inflation may not be dead yet. There is no doubt that it was a disappointing report for those hoping we could put the pandemic inflation behind us, but there still is not much basis for thinking the Fed needs to get out the nukes and start shooting big-time. More

    • KTVZ

    On paper, teens are thriving. In reality, they're not

    When it comes to teen mental health, The Hechinger Report found that traditional measures of well-being don't match what youth are saying about their mental health.