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California Joins Other States in Suing Companies Over Insulin Prices
The state is taking action against three major drug companies and the big pharmacy benefit managers in an effort to temper costs for people with diabetes.
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News
Inflation Is Slowing, Good News for American Consumers and the Fed
Consumer Price Index inflation moderated to 6.5 percent in December, helping Fed officials to lean toward slower rate moves.
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News
The Week in Business: Slowing Job Growth
Credit...Giulio BonaseraWhat’s Up? (Jan. 1-7) A Cooling Jobs Market After many consecutive months of jobs reports showing strong gains, new jobs data on Friday appeared to begin breaking the mold. The economy gained 223,000 jobs last month, a ...
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World
High Food Prices Rile Up Canadians
Grocery stores have become a lightning rod for consumer discontent amid inflation and lingering mistrust after a bread price-fixing scandal.
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Where Are the Most Profitable Winter Vacation Rentals?
Areas known for skiing and other winter activities can offer hearty investment returns, but they’re often offset by higher purchase prices.
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Fed Officials Fretted That Markets Would Misread Rate Slowdown
Central bankers remained committed to wrestling inflation lower, and wanted to make sure investors understood that message, minutes from its December meeting showed.
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Fed Official Compares Inflation to Uber Surge Pricing
Neel Kashkari, the president of the Minneapolis Fed, kicked off 2023 monetary policy debates with a call for better understanding of what causes inflation.
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Newyork
The Football Game Theory of Inflation
If you don’t think of economists as party animals, you’re right. Or at least that’s the conclusion one might draw from the fact that several prominent economists carried on a thoughtful, earnest online debate about inflation over the past weekend ...
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News
Natural Gas Prices in Europe Fall to Pre-Invasion Levels
Warm weather, alternatives to Russian gas and a buildup of storage all help. But prices remain high for consumers and industry.
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Newyork
Is the Inflation Storm Letting Up?
The average national price of regular gasoline this Christmas was almost 20 cents a gallon lower than it was a year earlier. Prices at the pump are still higher than they were during the pandemic slump, when economic shutdowns depressed world oil ...