“It’s fun but it’s difficult to know how much to make when everyone comes in on the same day,” said Kristin Thalheimer Bingham, co-owner of Dean’s Sweets in Portland, Maine.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has compared the federal budget to a household’s credit limit, but economists don’t buy that analogy. We’ll unpack the differences.
January’s consumer price index comes at a “critical time” for the Federal Reserve, the markets and consumer expectations. Plus, British companies get creative to tackle plastic packaging.
Today, we’ll do the numbers on our still-shifting labor market. Plus, what it takes to reach a balanced federal budget and what’s behind surging natural gas prices in California.
