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Wonking Out: Wasn’t Bitcoin Supposed to Be a Hedge Against Inflation?
There’s a financial joke, whose origin I don’t know, that has been making the rounds lately. It goes like this: If inflation continues at current ...
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Crypto, Houses, Sneakers, Rolexes: How FOMO Drove the Economy
The lowest-priced, stainless-steel version of the Cosmograph Daytona, the Rolex model that Paul Newman made famous, carries a suggested retail ...
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The Federal Reserve raises interest rates by 0.75 percentage points.
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point on Wednesday, its biggest move since 1994, as the central bank ...
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Biden Weighs Tariff Rollback to Ease Inflation, Even a Little Bit
WASHINGTON — President Biden is weighing whether to roll back some of the tariffs that former President Donald J. Trump imposed on Chinese goods ...
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The Fed May Discuss the Biggest Interest Rate Increase Since 1994
The Federal Reserve is likely to discuss making its biggest interest rate increase since 1994 at its meeting this week, as a range of new data ...
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Inflation Sped Up Again in May, Dashing Hopes for Relief
A surge in prices in May delivered a blow to President Biden and underscored the immense challenge facing the Federal Reserve as inflation, which ...
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The Perverse Politics of Inflation
On Monday, Eurostat, the European statistical agency, released a preliminary estimate of euro area inflation for March, and it was a shocker: 8.1 ...
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OPEC Plus agrees to a bigger increase in oil supply. But prices keep rising.
The group of oil-producing nations known as OPEC Plus agreed on Thursday to a larger increase in supply than planned for July and August. The ...
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The Doctor Prescribed an Obesity Drug. Her Insurer Called It ‘Vanity.’
Maya Cohen’s entree into the world of obesity medicine came as a shock. In despair over her weight, she saw Dr. Caroline Apovian, an obesity ...
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High Gas Prices Are a Problem. But Let’s Not Moralize About It.
Prices of gasoline and diesel fuel are crazy high and oil refiners are earning stupendous profits. But the refiners, who convert crude oil into ...
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