Posts by Amelia Frost
The Soaring Cost of Eggs Is Hitting Your Local Breakfast Spot
Karen Huebner did not want to raise the price of omelets. Even as she was paying more for eggs week after week, she held prices steady on over-easy dishes and breakfast burritos and other customer favorites at the Hot Grillz Diner, the small restaurant her family owns in Walton Hills, Ohio, about 15 miles southeast…
Read MoreHegseth Warns Europe They Can’t Assume US Military Presence ‘Will Last Forever’
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told America’s NATO allies that they cannot assume that the U.S. military presence in Europe “will last forever.” “The American troop levels on the continent are important,” Hegseth said during a news conference Friday in Warsaw with his Polish counterpart, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, Politico reported. “What happens five, 10, 15 years from…
Read MoreHow to Become a Millionaire With a Health Savings Account
It’s possible to amass $1 million in special health savings accounts to use in retirement, a new analysis finds, with several big caveats. You have to start young, contribute the maximum each year and leave the money untouched for decades instead of spending it on medical needs. Health savings accounts, known as H.S.A.s, let people…
Read MoreTrump Is Newly Unleashed on Trade, With Global Consequences
President Trump is pursuing a far more aggressive trade policy than he embraced in his first term, allowing his unfettered instincts about how to put America at the forefront to guide him with little pretense of investigations or extended deliberations. Since taking office, Mr. Trump has threatened tariffs on goods from potentially every global trading…
Read MoreRadiation Concerns After Ukraine Says Russian Attack Hit Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor
A photograph from April 2023 shows a building containing one of the nuclear reactors at Chernobyl. Ukraine said a Russian drone struck the protective containment shell of the plant in Kyiv in an overnight attack. GENYA SAVILOV/AFP via Getty Images Ukraine said a Russian drone attack struck the protective containment shell of the Chernobyl Nuclear…
Read MoreWhy Investors Appear Unfazed by the Latest Trump Tariffs
Elon Musk’s growing power in government appears to be making some of his businesses more of a magnet for investors. Case in point: Banks have managed to sell off most of the $12.5 billion worth of debt owed by X, his social network, to eager buyers. Investors are essentially betting that the company’s future is…
Read MoreTrial Of Spain’s Ex-football Chief Over Forced Kiss Ends
The trial of Spain’s former football chief Luis Rubiales over the forced kiss he gave star forward Jenni Hermoso wrapped up Friday, with a verdict expected in several weeks. Rubiales is accused of sexual assault for kissing Hermoso in 2023 following Spain’s triumph at the women’s World Cup in Australia, as well as coercion for…
Read MoreWhat Happens to Global Trade If ‘the W.T.O. Is Toast’?
When President Trump announced he would impose new tariffs on imports from countries around the world, he launched a frontal attack on the global free trade system created in the aftermath of World War II. Mr. Trump’s move, announced Thursday and set to begin as soon as April, represents a bet that the United States…
Read MoreDeepSeek Doesn’t Scare OpenAI, Thanks to the ‘Jevons Paradox’
Economic jargon is usually confined to textbooks and business school seminars. But every once in a while, something happens in the world that drives the lingo out of obscurity and into popular discussions. One such emergence happened late last month when, following a weekend of alarm over the viability of A.I. investments, Microsoft’s chief executive,…
Read MoreWhiskey Offers Window Into the Pain of a Trade War
Liquor lobbyists gathered in a ritzy private club on a recent rainy evening in Brussels to swill cocktails with names like “Toasts Not Tariffs” and fret over the potential disaster confronting their industry. Again. Seven years ago, the spirits industry found itself a casualty in a worldwide trade war as President Trump unleashed tariffs on…
Read MoreAfter Revolution, Bangladesh Textbooks Rewrite History
Bangladeshi high schooler Laiba is being educated for the future, but what she learns has been determined by the latest chapter in her country’s battle over its past. Last year, a student-led revolution overthrew the government of iron-fisted premier Sheikh Hasina when public anger over her increasingly autocratic rule boiled over. Her ouster has prompted…
Read MoreShould Tulips Replace Roses for Valentine’s Day? Florists Think So.
For the past five years, Molly Culver, owner of Molly Oliver Flowers in Brooklyn, has mounted a quiet battle against the goliath of Valentine’s Day flowers: the rose. Classically red, multilayered, prickly and velvety, millions of roses, most imported from overseas, will be sold for the annual day of love. But Ms. Culver is among…
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