Money & Income

Prices, paychecks, taxes and rates: what is changing in your wallet and why.

Money and income here is what changed in prices, paychecks, taxes and rates, and what it costs you. I write it as an owner who signs the checks, not as an economist. When inflation runs near 3.7 percent and diesel is over six dollars a gallon, I care first about what that does to a small operator's margin and to your grocery bill. Recent posts: the Fed holding interest rates steady as inflation sits at 3.7 percent and Europe's gas storage falling to its lowest level since 2022. The housing side of the same math is in Housing & Real Estate.