“The national average price for regular gasoline is a full dollar (or more) a gallon lower than a year ago. Drivers paid over $4.60 in May 2022, and prices had reached $5 by the second week of June.

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Last week, the report that China’s official Purchase Managers’ Index (PMI) for May came in below expectations was seen as evidence of weakening economic momentum in the second quarter. Investors had expected an uptick, but instead the manufacturing index fell for the second month, to 48.8,…

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For the last few weeks, we have published commentaries on the monetary policy dilemmas facing the Fed and central banks, the particularly American debt ceiling madness, and bank failures .

Florida’s passage of its law prohibiting the use of central bank digital currencies redefined the definition of money under the Uniform Commercial Code to exclude both US and foreign central bank currencies.

An acceleration of economic activity in the service sector would be most welcome under normal circumstances. It means more employment, more broadly defined growth in America, more absorption of the excess labor force, more closure of the gap between job seekers and job openings, and lots more.…

I remember going with my father to the Memorial Park in Vineland, NJ, to decorate graves. That was 75 years ago. I was about 5. All the veterans’ groups in the town would join in this annual rite.

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