Economics
What’s behind these weird price increases? Americans are paying more for window coverings and salad dressing
It’s been well-documented that Americans are paying more for food, gas, and other essentials this year...
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What is America’s debt ceiling?
AT SOME POINT in October—precisely when is uncertain—America’s federal government will be unable to pay its...
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Why official covid-19 deaths do not capture the pandemic’s true toll
KEEPING TABS on covid-19’s toll can feel like trying to count grains of sand on...
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What is behind rocketing natural-gas prices?
European gas prices have soared in recent weeks, climbing to a high of $25 per million British...
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Britain’s gas market is broken
“THE HISTORY book on the shelf/Is always repeating itself.” So sang ABBA in the 1974 Eurovision...
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Inflation challenges stock-market underpinnings as investors look ahead to Fed meeting
Inflation is unsettling some investors, even if it does prove a transitory feature of the pandemic....
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Natural-gas prices are spiking around the world
ACROSS THE world, a natural-gas shortage is starting to bite. Prices of power in Germany...
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My partner, the Dogecoin mogul
We bought a beaut of a truck this summer: a second-hand, barn-red Nissan Frontier with a...
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I don’t: my very modern marriage
You can hold hands if you want to.” We had arrived at the part in our...
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My son is married to a selfish, passive-aggressive woman. How can I leave him money without her getting her hands on it?
Dear Quentin, My 42-year-old only child married a woman 12 years ago. She is selfish, a...
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