Economics

Consumer prices jumped 7% in December compared with 12 months earlier — the hottest year-over-year inflation since June 1982. What is causing prices to increase and when can Americans expect a reprieve?

No wonder Albert Einstein labeled compound interest the “eighth wonder of the world.”

COVID-19 at-home tests are hard to find and now Abbott's BinaxNOW kits cost more at Walmart and Kroger.

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Supply chain disruptions have become a major challenge for the global economy since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Factory shutdowns (particularly in Asia) and widespread lockdowns and mobility restrictions have resulted in disruptions across logistics networks, increases in shipping costs, and longer delivery times. Several measures have been used to gauge these disruptions, although those measures tend to focus on selected dimensions of global supply chains. In this post, we propose a new gauge, the Global Supply Chain Pressure Index (GSCPI), which integrates a number of commonly used metrics with an aim to provide a more comprehensive summary of potential disruptions affecting global supply chains.

The U.S. inflation rate has seen its fastest annual increase in over 30 years. Which consumer spending categories have been hit the hardest?

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Median Sales Price of Houses Sold for the United States

Home prices are the median sale price of existing homes and incomes are the median household income within markets.

while supporting data to point to is scant, the pandemic likely accelerated homebuying plans among “renters by choice.”

But it's not inflation, it's limited bandwidth.

Author Richard Rothstein says the housing programs begun under the New Deal were tantamount to a "state-sponsored system of segregation," in which people of color were purposely excluded from suburbs.

In the early 20th century, the federal government categorized neighborhoods, based largely on race, to determine mortgage eligibility. A new site combines the maps — and their revealing backstories.

Redlining in New Deal America

United Van Lines 45th Annual National Movers Study tracks customers' migration patterns over the past year. See the study, interactive map and press kit.

2021 was a strong year for stocks, commodities, and cryptocurrencies, as most asset classes provided positive returns.

Is the recent rise in international shipping costs due to higher demand for goods during COVID-19, or are other disruptions also at play?

Ford said Tuesday it will nearly double production capacity of its upcoming electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck to 150,000 vehicles a year by mid-2023 in response to customer demand. The F-150 Lightning trucks, which will have a base price of $39,974 before tax incentives are applied and not incl…

The fascinating history behind why students today are still eating square pizzas, crinkle fries, and cartons of milk.

Old-growth trees in Tongass National Forest, which holds nearly twice as much carbon dioxide as the United States releases each year by burning fossil fuels, are embroiled in the politics of timber and climate change.

Turkey's lira has logged its worst year since President Tayyip Erdogan came to power nearly two decades ago, despite his appeal on Friday for Turks to trust his unorthodox policies of slashing interest rates in the face of soaring inflation.

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The supply chain crunch, modern logistics, and that famous trip around the Port of Long Beach

It's part of the administration's broader antitrust crackdown, but industry groups have pushed back.

Two years of communism had left alive only a fraction of the original Plymouth colonists. Unable to survive another season like the last two, the elders decided to try something radically different: the introduction of private property rights and the right of the individual families to keep the fruits of their own labor.

Here's a round-up of some of my favorite charts from 2021:The U.S. stock market as a whole was basically devoid of volatility this year:In fact, out of the past 94 years of data, this year