It’s not just your fluffy winter pajamas being affected by global supply chain snarl-ups. Your summer shorts could be too. Under Armour Inc, the sportswear maker, warned that the impact of bottlenecks could continue into its spring and summer seasons. Higher shipping costs could last for much of this year too. The current effects are a continuation of the supply-chain ...

  Browsing the internet has never really been free. Each time you visit a website, a silent auction for your eyeballs is conducted to show you an ad that effectively makes you pay with your personal information. Location, birthday, browsing data and more are broadcast to hundreds of vendors within a millisecond. The practice has flourished even in Europe, which ...

  Coming into this year, the hope was that supply chain improvements and modest interest-rate increases from the Federal Reserve would return US economy to the healthy expansion mode it enjoyed in 2019. Accelerating inflation and anecdotes from companies suggest that’s much less likely to happen than it seemed a few months ago. The Fed is in a tight corner: ...