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10 Monday AM Reads

My Yom Kippur morning reads: • Weeks Before the Midterms, Almost Everything Is Getting More Expensive: David Uberti and Justin Lahart on mortgage rates near 7%, gas at its highest since 2022, and the…

The August 2026 inflation numbers, By Uddin Ifeanyi

Do the National Bureau of Statistics’ (NBS) numbers on the economy’s performance still count for much? No, if we are to take seriously the Tinubu government’s spokesperson on matters economic. Yet, the recently released consumer price index (CPI) report by the NBS for August contains a fistful of brownie points for the federal…

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