Economy
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Inflation Has Arrived, but Washington Isn’t Racing to Limit Price Pops
Prices have risen by more than Fed officials expected, based on both their public statements and their economic projections this…
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Return to Office Hits a Snag: Young Resisters
David Gross, an executive at a New York-based advertising agency, convened the troops over Zoom this month to deliver a…
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QR Codes Are Here to Stay. So Is the Tracking They Allow.
SAN FRANCISCO — When people enter Teeth, a bar in San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood, the bouncer gives them options. They…
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Delays, More Masks and Mandatory Shots: Virus Surge Disrupts Office-Return Plans
He did not respond, but days later Apple posted an internal video in which company executives doubled down on bringing…
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Buy My House, But I’m Taking the Toilet
In any market, it is not uncommon for buyers and sellers to spar over light fixtures, window treatments and appliances,…
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Silicon Valley’s Best Pandemic Ever
On March 13, 2020, Glenn Kelman, the chief executive of the online real estate broker Redfin, was biking to work…
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Rising Rents Threaten to Prop Up Inflation
Kaitlin Cindrich is facing a $200 monthly increase in rent this August if she and her husband can renew their…
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For Airlines, It’s Looking More Like 2019 Again
The aviation recovery is gaining momentum. A summer travel bonanza is exceeding expectations, helping airlines earn profits again and brightening the…
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More phone calls, less shopping: how the pandemic changed American lives, down to the minute.
The pandemic upended every aspect of daily life last year — work, leisure, even sleep. New government data paints the…
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The National Labor Relations Board grants a reprieve to inflatable rats.
It turns out that inflatable rodents may be as unstoppable as their living, breathing cousins. On Wednesday, the National Labor…
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Senators and Biden Aides Struggle to Save Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal
WASHINGTON — Congressional negotiators and the Biden administration tried on Monday to salvage a nearly $600 billion bipartisan agreement to…
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Low-Wage Workers Now Have Options, Which Could Mean a Raise
McDonald’s is raising wages at its company-owned restaurants. It is also helping its franchisees hang on to workers with funding…
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Officially, the pandemic recession lasted only two months.
The pandemic recession is officially over. In fact, it has been over for more than a year. The National Bureau…
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Job-Hunters, Have You Posted Your Résumé on TikTok?
“Calling all recruiters!” Makena Yee, 21, a college student in Seattle, shouted into her camera in a recent TikTok video.…
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As Lebanon Collapses, the Man With an Iron Grip on Its Finances Faces Questions
The coronavirus pandemic and a huge explosion in the port of Beirut last August further devastated the economy. Estimates put…
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Building Solar Farms May Not Build the Middle Class
‘Like a Moving Assembly Line’ On an afternoon in mid-May, several laborers coming off their shift at Assembly Solar said…
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‘The Market Is Insane’: Cars Are Sold Even Before They Hit the Lot
Some customers have balked at paying top dollar for new cars and have opted to make do with older vehicles.…
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Inflation? Not in Japan. And That Could Hold a Warning for the U.S.
TOKYO — In the United States, everyone is talking about inflation. The country’s reopening from the coronavirus pandemic has unleashed…
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The Fed chair will appear again before Congress as inflation continues to rise.
When Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, appears before the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday, he will be testifying…
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Democrats Roll Out $3.5 Trillion Budget to Fulfill Biden’s Broad Agenda
WASHINGTON — President Biden and congressional Democrats vowed on Wednesday to push through a $3.5 trillion budget blueprint to vastly…
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