inflation
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Pandemic-Fuelled Car Price Hikes Reportedly Contributed to Inflation
Inflation is touching all of our daily lives in different ways — just ask anyone who has tried to buy eggs this year. New research published by the Bureau of Labour Statistics has found that markups at car dealerships have been a driver of that inflation.
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Record Inflation Will Jack up the Price of Your Next Phone
If you’re already struggling with pain at the pump and rising prices of everything from ramen to rent, buckle up for some more unpleasant news. The fastest inflation increase in four decades means a year of pricier phones, laptops, and other gadgets as well.
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How The Universe Ends
Somewhere between a second and a millennium from now, you will die. Your body and all of its parts will cease functioning and rejoin the Earth as regular, lifeless stuff. The Earth, too, will die, engulfed by an expanding, ageing Sun. The Sun will burn off all of its fuel and end up a white…
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We Probably Haven’t Found Evidence For The Multiverse
Perhaps you saw the news this week about new evidence that we do, indeed, live in a multiverse. A scientist claims he’s found signs in the cosmic microwave background radiation — the afterglow, so to speak, from the Big Bang — that our universe collided with another universe early in our cosmic history.