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    Inflation

    Inflation shoots higher as Trump tariffs ripple through economy

    Consumer prices rose 2.9% in August from a year earlier, up from 2.7% the previous month and the biggest increase since January.

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
    September 11, 2025

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    Billionaire CEO Barry Sternlicht admits he was ‘a little early’ with his recession calls. ‘I did not understand the strength of the consumer’

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    5 reasons why top economist Mark Zandi says ‘this time is different’ and he’s ‘betting against’ a U.S. recession

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    Jerome Powell tells Congress we have a ‘long way to go’ on inflation and the Fed will decide on interest rates ‘meeting by meeting’

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
    June 21, 2023
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    June 20, 2023
    Retailers are facing ‘shrink’ from an increasing ‘organized retail crime’ threat—but UBS says it won’t last
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    Retailers are facing ‘shrink’ from an increasing ‘organized retail crime’ threat—but UBS says it won’t last

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    June 20, 2023
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    Gavin Newsom ordered the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative to find out just how bad San Francisco’s crisis is: ‘People are homeless because their rent is too high’

    By Janie Har and The Associated Press
    June 20, 2023
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    Americans are so fed up with inflation that charitable giving declined last year for just the 4th time in 40 years

    By Glenn Gamboa and The Associated Press
    June 20, 2023
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    You’ve heard about shrinkflation—now get ready for ‘drinkflation’

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    Only 1 in 3 African women have access to the internet–compared with half of men. The cost to the continent’s economy could be in the billions

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    Recession timing key for Biden reelection bid—this year would be ‘less damaging’ than early 2024, history suggests
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    Recession timing key for Biden reelection bid—this year would be ‘less damaging’ than early 2024, history suggests

    By Gregory Korte and Bloomberg
    June 18, 2023
    2 top economists both hate the Fed’s ‘inexplicable’ and ‘crazy’ signaling on rate hikes—but for totally different reasons
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    2 top economists both hate the Fed’s ‘inexplicable’ and ‘crazy’ signaling on rate hikes—but for totally different reasons

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    June 16, 2023
    A recession is ‘at our doorstep,’ but investors are falling for a goldilocks scenario, Wells Fargo says. It ‘isn’t going to end all that well’
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    A recession is ‘at our doorstep,’ but investors are falling for a goldilocks scenario, Wells Fargo says. It ‘isn’t going to end all that well’

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    The world’s top inequality researcher breaks down his surprising findings that we really are all becoming more equal

    The world’s top inequality researcher breaks down his surprising findings that we really are all becoming more equal

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    There won’t be a true recession anytime soon—but a ‘growth recession’ is still on the menu next year, BofA warns
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    There won’t be a true recession anytime soon—but a ‘growth recession’ is still on the menu next year, BofA warns

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    America’s latest inflation wave is all about corporations ‘using excuses’ and ‘cover’ to increase profits, says top UBS economist
    Finance

    America’s latest inflation wave is all about corporations ‘using excuses’ and ‘cover’ to increase profits, says top UBS economist

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    The American shopper just keeps shrugging off the economists’ predictions as retail sales rise again in May

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    June 15, 2023
    Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell will not be able to avoid a recession, predicts Deutsche Bank.
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    Deutsche Bank’s top minds put U.S. recession chance near 100%—and say avoiding a hard landing would be ‘historically unprecedented’ 

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    Jerome Powell sounds ultra-cautious as he takes his foot off the hike machine: ‘We want to get inflation down to 2%, and we just don’t see that yet’

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
    June 15, 2023
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    The Fed’s summertime pause on interest rates could easily turn into a permanent vacation

    By Ryan Herzog and The Conversation
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    The same bank strategist who warned that greedflation could be ‘the end of capitalism’ is still worried, saying he ‘can find no precedent in history’ for what’s happening

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    Fed keeps key interest rate unchanged after 10 straight hikes—but it might raise it 2 more times later this year

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
    June 14, 2023
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    The Fed is likely to ‘skip’ and not ‘pause’ a rate hike because Jerome Powell can’t get his 18-member committee to agree

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
    June 14, 2023
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    Inflation metrics keep dropping, as wholesale prices drop 0.3% in May

    By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press
    June 14, 2023
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    Finance

    Wall Street’s biggest bull called this year’s stock market rally—now instead of a recession, he says ‘the economy is actually slipping into an expansion’

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    Is falling inflation a ‘feather in the cap for the Fed’ or a false dawn? That depends on which economist you ask

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    After almost tripling in price in recent months, the cost of eggs just fell the most of any year since 1951
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    After almost tripling in price in recent months, the cost of eggs just fell the most of any year since 1951

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    Inflation cools in May to slowest pace in over 2 years

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