Petrol hit a four-year low just as people drove home for Christmas.
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I saw the American petrol headline the same week people started packing the boot for Christmas, which is an unreasonably specific kind of timing. The AAA average for a gallon…
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UK interest rates fell to 3.75% — the lowest in almost three years.
On 18 December the Bank of England cut Bank Rate from 4% to 3.75%. The vote was 5–4, which is the kind of score that tells you nobody in the…
People spent a record online on Black Friday — and used AI to hunt the deals.
Black Friday used to mean a photograph of a queue, or a door that should not have opened that fast. This year the photograph was a laptop. American shoppers spent…
The White House cut food tariffs. The grocery bill did not fall overnight.
On 14 November the news said the American president had rolled back tariffs on more than two hundred foods, including coffee, beef, bananas, orange juice, cocoa, and tea. I read…
A cup of coffee got more expensive before the beans even reached the shop.
I don’t drink coffee the way adults do, in a paper cup that is somehow a personality. I still notice the board. The café near school has been sliding the…
America cut interest rates even though prices were still rising.
I saw the headline on Wednesday and then I saw the price of a sandwich near school, and the two sentences refused to sit next to each other. On 29…
The government stopped paying people $7,500 to buy an electric car.
The BBC had a piece this week about people rushing to collect electric cars before the end of September, which sounds dramatic until you see the number attached to it.…
Apple raised some iPhone prices. The CEO said it wasn’t tariffs.
Someone in my form already has a photo of the new iPhone 17 on their lock screen. I saw the headline while I was supposed to be checking a Maths…