In a warming world, freshwater production is moving deep beneath the sea

A prototype OceanWell reverse osmosis pod sits on the dock at the Las Virgenes Reservoir in Westlake Village, Calif., Monday, ...
Hypebeast

Max Reverts Back to "HBO Max" in New Name Change

Max is slated to rebrand back to HBO Max this summer The announcement comes just two years after HBO was dropped for the singular Max branding Warner Bros. Discovery believes that returning to the ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Bessent Sees Room for a Future Revamp of the Fed’s 2% Target

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent backed the idea of reconsidering the Federal Reserve’s 2% inflation target once the US has sustainably brought price increases back down to that pace. “Once we are ...
CNN

The US economy expanded at the fastest pace in two years as wealthier Americans kept spending

An initial reading of third-quarter gross domestic product showed the US economy expanded at an inflation-adjusted annualized rate of 4.3%, a far faster pace than the 3.8% recorded in the second ...
Seguin Gazette

Stalsworth: The 12 gifts of Biden

I was going to do a piece on the 12 days of Christmas, but it turns out that it’s already been done by both parties ad nauseam, usually talking about the 12 bad things the other party did. During my ...
Fox Business

Top Trump economist calls new inflation data ‘blockbuster,’ says economy mirrors first-term gains

White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett praised Thursday’s consumer price index (CPI) report, which showed inflation rose less than expected. "It was just an absolute blockbuster ...
The New York Times

From A.I. to Tariffs, 14 Charts That Explain 2025

President Trump’s trade policy, inflation and climbing stock prices shaped business and the economy this year. By Christine Zhang In recent years, macroeconomic tides have ebbed and flowed, but one ...
CBS News

CPI report shows inflation rose at a 2.7% annual pace in November, cooler than expected

The CPI was expected to rise 3% on an annual basis last month, according to economists surveyed by financial data firm FactSet. In the most recent inflation reading, from September, the CPI rate rose ...
The New York Times

Japan Raises Interest Rates to Highest Level in 30 Years

The Bank of Japan moved to slow inflation as the prime minister is borrowing more to fund an ambitious effort to build up industry and support households. By River Akira Davis Reporting from Tokyo ...
Wall Street Journal

The Data Problems in Thursday’s Inflation Report Will Linger for Months

Economists on Thursday warned that a big drop in November inflation had more to do with data challenges caused by the government shutdown than with actual changes in the economy. Unfortunately, those ...
Bloomberg L.P.

November CPI Report Raises Doubts About US Inflation Data

After long-awaited government data showed underlying US inflation cooled to a four-year low in November, economists agreed on at least this much: something was off. In a report fouled by the ...