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$800,000 Per Restaurant Is the Real Price of McDonald’s $8.5 Billion Overhaul

McDonald’s held an investor day on Tuesday, announced a decade-long plan to rebuild its restaurants around new technology and a protein-heavy menu, and watched its stock…

$800,000 Per Restaurant Is the Real Price of McDonald’s $8.5 Billion Overhaul

The Ground Beef Number Washington Is Quoting Is $9 a Pound, Not the $7.16 the Government Measures

Trump’s Handpicked Fed Chair Delivered a Rate Hike, Not the Cut He Was Hired For

Costco’s Two-Case Motor Oil Limit Traces Back to a Wrecked Gas Plant in Qatar

Walmart’s Slowest Sales Growth in Six Years Is a Gas Price Warning, Not a Recession Call

The Dollar Still Rules, but BRICS Is Learning to Trade Without It

Saudi Arabia Moved Its Oil West to Escape Iran. That Put It Inside Houthi Range.

21.2% of Homeowners Already Pay 6% or More. Home Depot Still Calls It a Waiting Game.

The IRS Lost a Third of Its Audit Revenue, and the Money to Rebuild the Staff Ran Out on New Year’s Eve

Oil at $94 Is Priced on the Mines Nobody Can Find, Not the Ones the Navy Cleared

Canada Walks Away and Suspends Trade Talks as 50% New Tariff Kicks In

Three Days After Trump Declared a Canada Deal, 50 Percent Tariffs Took Effect Anyway

Bessent Doubled the Bond Buybacks and the Market Gave Him Exactly One Day

State Farm Is Sending Back $5 Billion It Collected When Auto Premiums Jumped 20 Percent

Record August Gas at $4.08 Is a Refining Story, Not a Crude One

The Unemployment Rate Fell to 4.1% Because People Stopped Looking

HOA Foreclosures Jumped 40% Because the Associations Themselves Ran Out of Money

The 2027 Social Security COLA Is Coming, and a 43-Year-Old Tax Rule Will Take a Piece of It

Temporary Tariffs Expire Today as Trump Administration Locks in Permanent Duties on 60 Countries

Houthis Hit Two Saudi Oil Tankers in the Red Sea, and Crude Is Suddenly Knocking on $100

New 50% Tariffs on Canadian Hockey Sticks, Cheese, and Cars, and the USMCA May Be Dead

Gas Prices Hit $4 a Gallon Again as Iran War Squeezes American Wallets

The Largest Housing Bill in a Generation Just Became Law Without Trump’s Signature

The June Jobs Report Just Confirmed What Workers Already Knew: This Economy Is Running on Fumes

Strong Currency vs. Weak Currency: Which Is Better?

Congress Passes Landmark Housing Bill That Bans Private Equity From Buying Single-Family Homes

Alan Greenspan, the ‘Maestro’ Who Made the Fed Chair the Most Powerful Job in Washington, Dies at 100

Iran Closes the Strait of Hormuz Again, Three Days After Reopening It Under the Truce

Cuba Just Threw Out Its Own Playbook With 176 Free-Market Reforms

Beef Just Hit $9.64 a Pound, and America’s Summer Grilling Season Has a Problem