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Trump says 'I love the inflation' after consumer price index hits 3-year high CNBCInflation heats up to highest pace in three years, fueled by Iran war The Washington PostTrump Says He Loves Inflation Caused By Iran War ForbesUS Inflation Accelerates, Though Core Gauge Comes in Softer Bloomberg.comIt's Nearly Impossible to Find a Savings Account That Outpaces Inflation. Th
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Companies appear hesitant to pass those price increases on to weary consumers, whose wages aren't keeping up.
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A new study from Constant Contact surveyed more than 5,000 small-business owners. A key trend that emerged? Content creation.
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Hunter Point Capital has raised $4.3bn across the inaugural vintages of its NAV Lending and Preferred Solutions strategies.
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Could artificial intelligence help small business owners gain the insights they need to operate more efficiently and grow? In the updated edition of Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream, Karen Mills looks at evolving technology and how it might power this critical engine of the US economy.
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The economic banishment of all things Russian. Tariffs on Chinese imports. Pandemic-caused shortages of computer chips, bicycles, garage door parts and other imports. Brexit.
Just about everywhere you turn, you can see that the tectonic plates of the global economy have stopped converging and are starting to pull apart in ways that will determine new winners and losers, says Ethan Harris, head of global economics for Bank of America Securities. "Deglobalization is a gradual process, and in the long run, very important" to investors, he says, because it will have profound impacts on corporate profitability.
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Globalization refers to the increase of commerce across borders. U.S. companies prospered for decades as new markets opened for their goods and labor costs plummeted thanks to overseas production. Strategists at BofA have estimated that over the past 20 years, globalization has contributed more than half of what has been a robust expansion in profit margins. Globalization has also helped to deliver low-cost goods to American consumers.
But now, says market strategist Ed Yardeni, the pandemic and spreading political and military conflicts have stretched supply chains past the breaking point, prompting companies to bring many operations closer to home. "Deglobalization was almost inevitable," Yardeni says. U.S. companies are starting to "reshore" production back to the U.S., "near-shore" it to neighbors such as Mexico, or "friend-shore" it to allies such as Vietnam.
Investment firm Piper Sandler counted more than 900 announcements of companies either building or expanding manufacturing facilities in the U.S. in the 12 months ending in May of 2022. In 2012, there were only about 100 such announcements. Over the long term, companies
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