Laura Curtis

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  • The Georg Maersk, left, and Colorado Express container ships at the Port of Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California, US, on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025. A US trade provision dating to the 1930s, which eventually cleared the way for more than a billion small parcels each year, ended Friday. Photographer: Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesEconomy

    US trading partners ‘dazed and confused’ after tariff court loss

    By Erik Larson, Laura Curtis, and others
  • This photo taken on May 10, 2025 shows cargo ships loaded with containers at the Port of Los Angeles in California, United States. In a recent advertisement, California Governor Gavin Newsom warned the American public of the “real” and “serious” consequences of recent high tariffs, describing the situation as a “code red” economic emergency.TO GO WITH “California governor warns of ‘code red’ economic emergency due to high tariffs” (Photo by Qiu Chen/Xinhua via Getty Images)Finance

    LA Port shipments fell 30% in early May after Trump tariffs

    By Laura Curtis and Bloomberg
  • US President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 3, 2025.Politics

    Tariff ‘earthquake’ sends shipping industry into crisis mode

    By Laura Curtis, Shawn Donnan, and others
  • container shipRetail

    Imports at top U.S. ports near pandemic-era highs ahead of China tariffs and possible Trump trade war

    By Laura Curtis and Bloomberg
  • Man with walletPersonal Finance

    Americans have now spent all $2.1 trillion of their pandemic savings, San Francisco Fed says

    By Laura Curtis and Bloomberg
  • Pedestrians in the financial district of San Francisco, California, U.S., on Monday, May 9, 2022. From Wall Street to Silicon Valley, companies fearful of losing talent are tweaking or scrapping dictates around how often workers need to be at their desks. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesSuccess

    Economists have finally figured out a decades-long mystery: Why men are increasingly forgoing work

    By Laura Curtis and Bloomberg
  • ANKARA, TURKEY – 2022/06/13: A man in the exchange office counts dollars. According to the data published by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TukStat) on June 3, annual inflation was determined at 73.50 percent. Inflation in Turkey has reached its highest level since October 1998. While the rise in inflation is reflected in the prices of food, electronics and similar consumer goods, the main reason for the rise is the depreciation of the Turkish Lira against foreign currencies. As of June 13, 1 dollar is 17 Turkish liras, and 1 euro is 18 Turkish liras. (Photo by Tunahan Turhan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Personal Finance

    Americans have spent nearly all their excess pandemic-era savings, and the economy may suffer as a result

    By Laura Curtis and Bloomberg
  • Tugboats pull the Malta-flagged Carpe Kortia container ship after an “outbreak of fire” in the engine room -which left no casualties- at the Panama canal, Panama, on January 30, 2023. – The “fire conate” is the second sinister with fire in the interoceanic way in the last six weeks, authorities reported. (Photo by Román DIBULET / AFP) (Photo by ROMAN DIBULET/AFP via Getty Images)Finance

    Panama Canal water levels are dangerously low because of a massive drought and it could mean bad things for global inflation

    By Laura Curtis, Ruth Liao, and others