One of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's top priorities for 2023 is to cut inflation in half, but three months in, consumer prices are back where they started—rising at an annual rate of 10.1%.
Continuing claims (the number of people who have already filed an initial application and are now claiming unemployment benefits) rose to 1.87 million in the week ended April 8.
How health insurers hide behind HIPAA to avoid sharing claims data with employers, while farming every imaginable fact about plan members as they bid for those employers' business.
"Banks are likely to become somewhat more cautious. That does tend to lead to somewhat greater restriction in credit that could be a substitute for further interest-rate hikes that the Fed needs to make."
