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Some U.S. solar panel makers are pro tariffs on Chinese-made materials. Others say the industry can’t meet demand without imported products.
The 10-year note is around the highest level since July. Traders expect mild but persistent inflation to restrain Federal Reserve rate cuts.
Builders are shying away from multifamily homes because of supply and cost issues. But single-family homes are cheaper and faster to build.
The extent to which industries make use of their production capacity has a bearing on inflation.
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says both candidates’ tax and spending promises would widen deficits, Trump’s by a lot more.
The increasingly dynamic nature of the American economy since the COVID-19 pandemic has wrought deep changes.
Outsourcing work overseas has led to short-term financial gain in return for longer-term losses, like the ability to both make and innovate.
We talked with Jay Shambaugh of the Treasury Department, leader of the most recent U.S.-China Economic Working Group meeting.
The economy may finally be emerging from pandemic weirdness.
The deadline for negotiations between the union representing dockworkers and the ports is next week.
![“In Boeing’s case especially, it [outsourcing] ended up more expensive than if it had kind of just stuck with its original culture of manufacturing first," says Jerry Useem, who has written about the company for more than 20 years. Above, Boeing 777s are assembled in its Everett, Washington, facility in 2011.](https://img.apmcdn.org/15e6746dfaf59feed61286d5eb4ca57de8c18b03/uncropped/74e628-2024-10-gettyimages-109090826-e1727988451455-webp2000.webp)
