…provide needed medical and psychological care for them has been undermined by profiteering, market fundamentalism, and political dysfunction. Like the Postal Service, whose mission is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution,…

…masks went overseas. When many were needed, foreign manufacture could not keep up and the prices were ridiculous. We are in a situation of whether we want all product being…

…nickel prices would induce a 6% increase in battery costs. If both lithium and nickel prices were to double at the same time, this would offset all the anticipated unit…

New Year, same old labor market deceleration  – by New Deal democrat This morning’s JOLTS report for November continued the same trend of labor market deceleration that we have seen…

…prices of another service artificially low, rather than optimizing all prices for profit. What services, exactly, were banks underpricing prior to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s cap on late fees? …

…only now beginning to see this market rent disinflation translate into the Fed’s main inflation gauges. Much of the market rent slowing is also attributable to a cooling of demand…

…growing market of build-to-rent houses By Alyssa Bickle The Copper Courier Single-family rental communities are growing quickly, fueled by high demand as mortgage prices continue to grow farther out of…

…liquid market in the world (U.S. Inter-Agency Working Group on Treasury Market Surveillance, 2023), providing a so-called ‘exorbitant privilege’ that softens market discipline and allows the country to borrow more…

…billionaires — have been actively reorganizing the market for their own benefit. The consequence has been a market created by those with great wealth for the purpose of further increasing…

…gasoline prices. But there’s not that much policymakers can do to bring grocery prices down, especially in the near term. Even Mr. Trump himself is now admitting this. To see…