Browsing: inflation
McDonald’s promoted its new $8 nugget combo meal, then got blasted online with complaints about affordability, quality and service
McDonald’s CEO said combo meals at one of the world’s largest fast food chains were too expensive earlier this year,…
Longtime Trump advisor Kevin Hassett emerges as favorite for Fed chair, Bloomberg reports
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday that there’s a “very good chance” that President Donald Trump will name a new…
Families struggle to catch up after the shutdown hit SNAP, with some hitting up food banks and skipping Thanksgiving
She had it figured down to the last dollar. The looming insurance payment, balanced against the hard-earned paycheck. The cost…
If the market doesn’t seem sure whether or not to expect a base interest rate cut next month, it’s not…
The analyst who once predicted the ‘end of capitalism’ sees Zohran Mamdani’s election as a ‘day of reckoning coming in’—and corporates only have themselves to blame
Albert Edwards, the long-standing strategist at Société Générale known for offering the “alternative view” within the institution, believes the recent…
‘It didn’t have to be this way’ — Top economist warns affordability crisis will continue
Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi lamented what could’ve been, if President Donald Trump hadn’t waged war on trade and…
Trump promises to send $2,000 tariff dividend checks ‘probably the middle of next year, a little bit later than that’
President Donald Trump promised on Monday that his administration will begin issuing $2,000 “tariff dividend” checks to Americans around the…
America’s path out of $38 trillion national debt crisis likely involves pushing up inflation and ‘eroding Fed independence,’ says JPMorgan Private Bank
While optimistic economists argue that America can grow its way out of a debt crisis, pessimists believe the real outcome…
More groceries may benefit from tariff exemptions as the 2026 midterm elections get closer, analyst says
The tariffs that President Donald Trump rolled back this past week will barely move the needle on consumer inflation, but…
Despite getting clobbered on affordability in recent elections, Republicans stick to Trump’s view that the economy has never been better
Almost two weeks after Republicans lost badly in elections in Georgia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia, many GOP leaders insist there is…












