Sabri Ben-Achour

Scarce labor and supply chain snarls, for two.

When the central bank makes money, it hands it to the Treasury. But now it's losing money as it pays interest to banks on their deposits.

The yield on the 10-year Treasury briefly hit 5%, the highest level since 2007. A resilient economy and expanding debt are pushing rates up.

No surprise: Inflation, higher interest rates and the pandemic all play a role.

Nishad Singh, former head of engineering at FTX, took the stand this week in the fraud and conspiracy trial against Sam Bankman-Fried.

The EU has opened a formal investigation and could impose penalties to "level the playing field," while China decries that step as "naked protectionism." European automakers are hoping to avoid the fate of Europe’s solar industry a decade ago, when it was mostly wiped out by low cost Chinese competitors.

A New York Times investigation finds migrant children are illegally working the dangerous job of cleaning slaughterhouses.

Consumers may spend a record $12.2 billion this year — that's the treat. But sellers may need tricks to bring their goods to market.

People in the U.S. saved an estimated $2.1 trillion at one point in the pandemic. By some estimates, that money's pretty much gone.

The two challenges are interrelated, and a new report from the McKinsey Global Institute says they must be addressed in tandem.