It’s easy to say inflation is the source of our money woes. Is it time to stop?
Businesses may not have an incentive to lower prices if consumers are still in an inflation mindset.
The tumult in car prices moderated in 2023. Expect more of the same next year.
“Even more stuff started kind of flooding in during that window of time when going places wasn’t really an option,” says Washington Post feature writer Caitlin Gibson.
But the hoped-for rebound not materialize.
“There was a romantic ideal about being in control of your own destiny,” says Backwards Distilling co-founder Amber Pollock.
Consumers are increasingly asking how sustainable the produce they’re buying is, so the European Union is trying to find a simpler grading system.