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Reported hits the September USDA Economic Research Service forecast. Figure 1 displays the food-at-home component of the CPI, along with ERS forecasts: Figure 1: CPI-food at home (bold black), January 2025 forecats (light blue square), March forecast (red triangle), and September (inverted light green triangle), all s.a. Source: BLS via FRED, ERSand author’s calculations. Given the distortions in the reported CPI arising from the government shutdown, one shouldn’t overstress the  month-on-month figures. Looking over the longer term, grocery prices rose 2.4% y/y through December 2025. In contrast, they rose only 1.7% y/y through December 2024. So much for bringing down…

Barcelona boss Hansi Flick says he could suffer the same fate as Xabi Alonso despite a growing sense of family at the Liga leaders. Alonso left Real Madrid on Monday and replaced by Alvaro Arbeloa after a turbulent seven-month spell at the Santiago Bernabéu. His final game in charge was Sunday’s Spanish Super Cup final defeat to Barca in Saudi Arabia amid reports of player unrest with several senior members of the Madrid squad believed to be unconvinced by his methods. The situation is more serene for Flick at the minute, especially after their victory in the Middle East, but…

City Manager for Juneau, Alaska, Katie Koester, joins FOX Weather to talk about how locals are handling the recent flood and avalanche threat and how emergency crews are prepared to handle impending situations.HAINES, Alaska – An avalanche closed part of a highway in the borough of Haines, a small town about 90 miles north of Juneau in Alaska’s panhandle on Tuesday night — the latest debris slide in the region after days of heavy rain triggered avalanches in Juneau last week.HOW TO WATCH FOX WEATHERBarricades have been placed at Mile 10 of the Haines Highway and crews will begin to…

The European Commission will approve, on Wednesday, the plan for Portugal to access 5.8 billion euros in loans on favorable terms to invest in defense capabilities. “We proposed SAFE [Security Action for Europe Instrument]our joint procurement initiative, less than a year ago, and […] we now have the Member States’ plans. We plan to approve half of them already this week,” announced the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in statements to a small group of journalists in Brussels, including Lusa. European sources told Lusa that eight countries, out of 18 applicants, are involved, whose plans should…

by Calculated Risk on 1/09/2026 10:34:00 AM Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Housing Starts Decreased to 1.246 million Annual Rate in OctoberA brief excerpt: Note: The Census Bureau is still catching up. They released Start data for September and October today, but we are still missing November data….The third graph shows the month-to-month comparison for total starts between 2024 (blue) and 2025 (red).Total starts were down 7.8% in October compared to October 2024. Year-to-date (YTD) starts are down 0.7% compared to the same period in 2024. Single family starts are down 7.0% YTD and multi-family up 18.0%…

Italian Cup8:00 PMJanuary 13, 20263rd RoundOlympic StadiumReferee: Kevin Bonacina, Italy Copy and paste this HTML code into your webpage to embed. AS Roma World Class 0 Solid 0 Bang Average 0 Lucky 0 Shocking 0 Torino World Class 0 Solid 0 Bang Average 0 Lucky 0 Shocking 0 Turn off spoiler to view match statistics0.00Expected goals (xG)0.00Passing432 (81%)Accurate passes247 (73%) Lineup data will be available 1 hour before the kickoff AS Roma vs Torino Video Highlights & Match Recap – 13 Jan 2026 Mark your calendars for 13 Jan 2026 as AS Roma face off against Torino in an exciting…

The Miami Heat squandered a 20-point advantage before recovering to overcome the Phoenix Suns 127-121 on Tuesday night. Norman Powell hit a three-pointer with 48 seconds left to put Miami ahead for good, and Andrew Wiggins made a pair of free throws to seal the game after Suns’ Dillon Brooks was called for a flagrant […] The post Heat squander 20-point advantage before rallying to beat Suns appeared first on TalkBasket.net.

The National Avalanche Center and the U.S. Forest Service put together a video explaining the dangers of avalanches and the weather forecasts you should look over to stay out of danger.ELLENSBURG, Wash. – Two men were killed during an avalanche in a remote area near Longs Pass in Washington’s Cascade Mountains last Friday. AVALANCHE SAFETY TIPSKittitas County Sheriff’s officials said that four backcountry travelers were caught in an avalanche around 4:00 p.m. local time. Two men were killed during an avalanche in a remote area near Longs Pass in Washington’s Cascade Mountains last Friday. Kittitas County Sheriff’s officials said that…

Speaking in Detroit, President Donald Trump said unearthing and ending fraud nationwide would eliminate the country’s deficit. Trump criticized public services fraud by Somalis in Minnesota and also said there is fraud in “many other places.” “If we stop this fraud, this massive fraud, we’re going to have a balanced budget,” Trump said Jan. 13 at the Detroit Economic Club. We also fact-checked other statements from that speech. In Minnesota, investigators have identified fraud involving federal money for housing programs, autism services and child nutrition. Federal prosecutors charged dozens of defendants beginning in 2022 — before Trump’s current term —…

The recent removal of Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela’s presidency is a dramatic development after more than two decades of socialist experimentation under Hugo Chávez and Maduro, characterized by expropriation, macroeconomic mismanagement, and political repression. Although there is much uncertainty about the economic and political future of Venezuela, economics can offer some guidance—and warnings. One such lesson has to do with the dangerous temptation to base economic recovery solely on the oil sector. Venezuela’s prospects depend critically on the quality of its institutional and policy choices from now on. In Venezuela today, the judiciary, the electoral authorities, public prosecutors, and the…