LOS ANGELES/GLASTONBURY, England — Call it Beyflation. Or maybe Swiftflation. The cost of certain goods is retreating in some places, but that doesn’t include live music. Concert tickets have surged in price, to the point where economists are noticing. Fans ...

Five cases of malaria have been confirmed in Florida and Texas, the first time the potentially fatal mosquito-borne disease has been locally acquired in the United States in 20 years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday. The four Florida cases, along with one in Texas, have been diagnosed over a period of two ...

HONG KONG – Amid intensifying military deployments across East Asia, high-level defense dialogue between China and the United States remains frozen. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken did not secure any progress on the issue during his visit to Beijing last week. US Defense ...

SYDNEY – Australia‘s banking regulator told insurer Medibank on Tuesday it would have to set aside A$250 million ($167 million) in extra capital, citing weaknesses identified in its information security after a major hacking breach. Shares of the country’s biggest health insurer fell as much as 4.6% to mark their worst ...

Starbucks plans to issue “clearer” centralized guidelines for in-store visual displays following a union‘s allegations that managers banned Pride-themed decor, the coffee chain said in an internal memo to employees. “We intend to issue clearer centralized guidelines… for in-store visual displays and decorations that will continue to represent inclusivity ...

[This article is Chapter 2 of Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities. Now available at Amazon and in the Mises Store.] It is not uncommon to encounter political theorists and pundits who insist that political centralization is a boon to economic ...

In this week’s edition of The DecisionPoint Trading Room, Carl begins by discussing the downside exhaustion climax that occurred on Friday. He goes through DecisionPoint indicators and covers the major markets, as well as Crude Oil, Bitcoin and a discussion ...

In this episode of StockCharts TV’s Sector Spotlight, I look ahead to the month of July and what we can expect based on 20 years of seasonal performance. I then align that information with the current rotations for the various sectors ...

What we know for sure, is that the demand side of the U.S. Economy, as seen through the lens of the transportation sector, is holding up.  IYT, shown AI-generated in the image above, is the ETF for things that move ...

In 2023, self-employment has collapsed again with year-over-year self-employment growth dropping by 6.5 percent. That’s the largest drop since December 2007, when the Great Recession officially began. Original Article: “Yet Another Month of Questionable Federal Jobs Data as 310,000 Fewer People Report Having ...