Rent growth is expected to ease after interest rates slow down homebuying. It will take even longer for inflation numbers to reflect that.

Gig workers now have access to unemployment benefits as the economy has opened back up.

Some private-sector sources are reporting that year-over-year rent increases slowed down in June. This could be good news for inflation, but not anytime soon.

Food inflation should make consumers eager for discounts. But the couponing tradition isn’t keeping up with changing times.

“I’m taking a very, very big risk opening another retail location,” says Annie Lang Hartman, owner of the Michigan retail brand Wild Lettie.

It’s a bit like the stimulus payments the federal government handed out early in the pandemic. Just don’t call it stimulus.

“It’s a bit like pushing a boulder up a hill,” says London store owner Samantha Wallace.

Prices are up for the little things you set off in your backyard and the big shows your town puts on in the park.

For buyers, the competition is less fierce, but some sellers still have “pie in the sky” hopes.

The public is “at odds with expert opinion and traditional policymaking,” says Eric Plutzer of the McCourtney Institute for Democracy.