August 2, 2022
“If China were to invade Taiwan, the most-advanced chip factory in the world would be rendered “not operable,” TSMC Chair Mark Liu said in an English-language interview with CNN this week. In the undated interview, Liu said that if Taiwan were… Continue Reading…
August 2, 2022
“US household debt increased by 2% to $16.2 trillion in the second quarter, with mortgages, auto loans and credit-card balances all seeing sizable increases, according to a report by the New York Federal Reserve Bank. The increase in borrowing, which… Continue Reading…
August 1, 2022
“Inflation has been a persistent nightmare, and rising rents nationwide are partly to blame. Unfortunately for renters, things are unlikely to get better this year. “No quick relief in rent increases,” Alan Detmeister, a senior economist at UBS, told Yahoo… Continue Reading…
July 28, 2022
“EDITOR’S NOTE: Perhaps there was some hope that global grain prices would ease as soon as Russia and Ukraine reached a grain export agreement, allowing the latter to resume its exports. If anything, it would have helped ameliorate the global… Continue Reading…
July 21, 2022
“Initial jobless claims hit their highest level since mid-November last week, the latest sign that a historically tight labor market is beginning to slow, according to Labor Department data released Thursday. Claims totaled 251,000 for the week ended July 16, up 7,000… Continue Reading…
July 15, 2022
“…Inflation in the U.S. is at a 40-year high and gas prices have been surging since April 2020, with the average cost nationwide briefly hitting $5 a gallon in June. Rapidly rising rents and an end to federal COVID-19 relief have also taken a… Continue Reading…
July 14, 2022
“EDITOR’S NOTE: It’s a new set of generations experiencing what Silent Gen folks and Baby Boomers had to endure in the 1970s: Americans losing so much purchasing power in a given year. Theirs lasted a decade, while ours is just over… Continue Reading…
July 14, 2022
“EDITOR’S NOTE: Today €1 = $1. This means the euro has declined to reach parity with the US dollar. What’s the significance? It’s going to cost European producers and consumers more to import stuff from the US. By the same token, it’ll… Continue Reading…
July 13, 2022
“Surging prices for gas, food and rent catapulted U.S. inflation to a new four-decade peak in June, further pressuring households and likely sealing the case for another large interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve, with higher borrowing costs to follow.… Continue Reading…
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