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INFLATION: TOO SOON TO TELL You may have seen the news flash that the US annual inflation rate slowed to 2.3% in April, the lowest since February 2021. Economic pundits are commenting that the Liberation Day tariffs had no impact. Yet buried are many recent corporate...

SAY GOODBYE TO RED DYE The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Department of Health and Human Services announced they will phase out blue, red, green, orange, and yellow petroleum-based synthetic dyes, many of which are banned in Europe and believed to cause or...

SWEET TREATS GONE IN A SNAP The cleverly named Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, is a federal government program in the United States formerly known as the Food Stamps Program. Administered nationwide by states, the program has served over 42 million...

HOW THE TARIFFS STOLE CHRISTMAS Will we have Christmas this year? It is estimated that China produces nearly 90% of the world’s Christmas products, which are valued at roughly $4 billion annually. Until recently, over half of these products found a home in the US....

TARIFF TURBULENCE: LET’S GET BACK TO THE BASICS Regardless of your political affiliation, declaring a global war against commerce using tariffs as the weapon of choice was probably not something most people envisioned. It only got more surreal when after trillions in...