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After decades of quiescence, inflation surged in 2021 and 2022. The annualized Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased from ...

needed at any given moment – the current “cost shift” narrative provides just enough ... fixed rate charge have an incentive to find and support large energy users to cover their fixed costs. Thus, ...

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Tone is everything, and this year we decided to address our cover editorial to a particular set of Trump voters—not MAGA diehards or aggressive nationalists, but pragmatic, Economist-reading ...

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The latest news in US politics, with coverage of President Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and the Democrats, Donald Trump and the ...

The latest news in US politics, with coverage of Donald Trump’s victory and the fallout from the US election in 2024.

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