Ukraine’s attacks on Russian oil refineries have driven up the price of jet fuel and gasoline. Plus: data center energy use, growing your own clothing, and travel by bus.

Economists worry fear of more war-driven inflation will push up actual inflation. Plus: Snack spending, baby boomer divorce agreements, a Sicily fixer-upper, and wild horses.

Trump ended a shaky ceasefire with Iran, and the oil market is back in a tizzy. Plus: sustainable aviation fuel, equity issuance, retail stockpiling, and commercial energy use.

It’s a case of too-great expectations. Plus: corporate earnings season, Klarna, family businesses, and drive-thru healthcare.

Anxiety over higher prices and pandemic-holdover retail schedules have families shopping early. Plus: Great Lakes algae, a native plants nursery, energy grid strain, and consumer moods.

A trade school in North Carolina is trying to get more women and non-binary people into careers in the trades — a more steady, AI-proof field than most. Plus, country stores, labor force participation, and a tailoring business.

There’s no widespread layoffs, and the unemployment rate kicked down, but economists expected double the amount of new jobs added. Plus, wage growth, de-extinction, the “lump of labor” fallacy, Saudi Aramco, and a social worker with a tour guide side hustle.

With a new Federal Reserve chair, can we expect a “Fed put” to promote stability in financial markets? Plus, teen jobs, home building, prediction markets, rush hour, and cowboy boots.

New data showed a slight increase in consumer confidence in June, though mixed signals from the economy could mean that’s temporary. Plus, a widening gender wage gap, small business struggles, remote work’s impact on parenting, and natural gas pipelines.