If it wasn’t clear already, it ought to be now: Etsy Inc is more than just a stay-at-home stock. The website for handmade goods became a go-to destination for face masks early in the pandemic thanks to quick pivots by its independent sellers to making this new necessity. That helped spark a rally in its shares that made it one ...

Most Republicans in Congress perennially resist increasing the minimum wage, citing economists who say businesses would have to eliminate workers and raise prices. That would stoke inflation and undermine the economy, they say. But if there was ever a period testing those assumptions and showing why raising the federal hourly wage gradually to $15 (as President Joe Biden proposes) would ...

Hoping to address supply-chain disruptions following the pandemic, President Joe Biden ordered a wide-ranging review of US reliance on foreign sources for critical goods such as pharmaceuticals, rare-earth metals and high-capacity batteries. On the most urgent matter — a shortage of semiconductors that has upended production at American automakers — he needs to think bigger. Last spring, car sales collapsed ...