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MILAN (AP) – Italian paper mills that make everything from pizza boxes to furniture packaging ground to a halt as Russia’s war in Ukraine has sent natural gas prices skyrocketing.

Demand collapsed in February as wildfire inflation burned through the Fed’s Fifth District, which includes the District of Columbia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and most of West Virginia.

Inflation is heating up even as the Fed gets ready to hike rates.

Inflationary pressures show no signs of letting up, raising the odds that the Federal Reserve may ratchet up interest rates even faster than anticipated. The Department of Labor’s Producer Price Index showed that prices rose one percent in January, twice

Inflation masked an even larger contraction in manufacturing at year-end.

Inflation, omicron-linked absenteeism, and weaker demand all hurt growth in the first month of 2022.

Another regional Fed survey shows mounting inflationary expectations.

According to the U.S. Commerce Department, manufacturers had less than five days’ supply of some computer chips on hand late last year. In 2019 the same manufacturers had a median level of inventory to cover 40 days of production.

Inflation, supply chain disruptions, quarantines, and soaring virus cases have brought the U.S. economy to a near standstill at the start of the year.

The Biden administration will not allow foreign truckers from Mexico or Canada to enter the country unless they provide proof of vaccination against the coronavirus.

The forward-looking measure of prices paid by manufacturers jumped to its highest level in decades.

Omicron has brought growth in New York State manufacturing to a halt.

Supply constraints just got even worse, suggesting more inflation ahead.

Supply chain constraints continue to weigh on manufacturing, the latest ISM PMI survey shows.

Demand fell as customers worked through inventory backlogs. Shortages continue to hinder the ability of manufacturers to produce finished goods.

A group of House Republicans is lobbying President Joe Biden’s United States Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai to allow more “made in China” companies to apply for tariff exclusions, Breitbart News has learned.

Capacity utilization is running a bit hot compared with its post-financial crisis average, which may portend more inflation ahead.

Shortages, rocketing fuel prices, and record high cost inflation are weighing down the U.S. manufacturing sector.

Texas factories see a lot more inflation coming down the pipeline.

White House economists told America inflation would fade in the later months of 2021. Instead, prices are surging again.

The Igloo Products Corporation, known for producing ice chests, coolers, and other products, imported foreign visa workers to take United States manufacturing jobs over hiring qualified Americans, a Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation finds.

President Joe Biden’s Department of Commerce has sided with Chinese solar manufacturers who produce in Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam, denying a request to investigate the manufacturers for evading United States tariffs on Chinese products. 

China’s state-run Global Times on Sunday was tremendously excited by the U.S. House of Representatives passing a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, because it expected the U.S. will quickly realize it no longer has the manufacturing capacity to build massive infrastructure projects without China’s help.

Buried inside the “infrastructure” bill is mention of China ‘s role in the supply chain needed to grow a fleet of electric vehicles in the U.S.

Chinese state media on Wednesday celebrated 20 years since China’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO).

Supply chain disruptions and labor scarcity drove productivity down much more than expected in the third quarter.

Supply chain problems are worsening and inflationary pressures are strengthening, according to the latest ISM manufacturing purchasing manager survey.

The Founders boldly threw down a nonimportation and exportation agreement against the greatest economic power on earth. 

Although core capital goods orders expanded in September, much of that reflects inflation rather than real growth.

“Our customers are deluged with price increases,” a Texas manufacturer reported.

Democrats lost significant support in small-to-medium cities and towns in the Midwest which have been gutted by the decades-long globalization of the American economy.

Orders for durable goods rose by less than prices of durable goods in August, suggesting there may have been an output contraction as supply-chain disruptions still stymie growth.

No sign of inflation pressures becoming “transitory” in the New York Fed’s manufacturing survey.

Real hourly compensation fell at an annualized rate of 4.6 percent in the first quarter.

Texas manufacturing activity unexpectedly slowed significantly in August, data from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas showed Monday. The production index of the Dallas Fed’s Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey plummeted to 20.8 in August from 31.0 in July. The index

Bidenflation spreading in the lastest manufacturing survey from the Kansas City Fed.