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Which Interest Rate Should You Care About?
Watch out for interest rates.Not the short-term rates controlled by the Federal Reserve. Barring an unforeseen financial crisis, they’re not going anywhere, especially not after the jump in inflation...
How to Back Up All Your Data and Important Documents
In recent weeks, Elon Musk and his aides have gained access to many federal agencies’ systems and unknown amounts of data. Many readers have written in to share their...
The Soaring Cost of Eggs Is Hitting Your Local Breakfast Spot
Karen Huebner did not want to raise the price of omelets.Even as she was paying more for eggs week after week, she held prices steady on over-easy dishes and...
How to Become a Millionaire With a Health Savings Account
It’s possible to amass $1 million in special health savings accounts to use in retirement, a new analysis finds, with several big caveats.You have to start young, contribute the...
Trump Is Newly Unleashed on Trade, With Global Consequences
President Trump is pursuing a far more aggressive trade policy than he embraced in his first term, allowing his unfettered instincts about how to put America at the forefront...
Why Investors Appear Unfazed by the Latest Trump Tariffs
Elon Musk’s growing power in government appears to be making some of his businesses more of a magnet for investors. Case in point: Banks have managed to sell off...
What Happens to Global Trade If ‘the W.T.O. Is Toast’?
When President Trump announced he would impose new tariffs on imports from countries around the world, he launched a frontal attack on the global free trade system created in...
DeepSeek Doesn’t Scare OpenAI, Thanks to the ‘Jevons Paradox’
Economic jargon is usually confined to textbooks and business school seminars. But every once in a while, something happens in the world that drives the lingo out of obscurity...
Whiskey Offers Window Into the Pain of a Trade War
Liquor lobbyists gathered in a ritzy private club on a recent rainy evening in Brussels to swill cocktails with names like “Toasts Not Tariffs” and fret over the potential...
Should Tulips Replace Roses for Valentine’s Day? Florists Think So.
For the past five years, Molly Culver, owner of Molly Oliver Flowers in Brooklyn, has mounted a quiet battle against the goliath of Valentine’s Day flowers: the rose. Classically...
