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Economy

What Biden can do to lower inflation but refuses to

Washington’s latest inflation report shows prices rising by 8.3% over the past year and core inflation (which excludes volatile food and energy prices) continuing to accelerate. Real wages have failed 2.7%. Moody’s Analytics and Penn-Wharton estimate that inflation is costing the average household $300 per month. A Harris poll reveals that 84% of Americans are […]

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Markets

Stock Market Today: Dow Drops, Bitcoin Plunges

Textsize If the losses hold, the Dow would fall for the sixth day in a row. Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images The stock market was falling again Thursday, as investors were fretting about the impact of inflation and the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy on the economy. In afternoon trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average retreated […]