At 12:01 a.m. Eastern time on September 29, 2026, certain Canadian dairy products stopped being allowed into the United States at all. Proclamation 11062, signed September 8, replaces a 50% import duty on those goods with an outright ban for anything arriving after that moment. The action is a trade-retaliation measure, not a food-safety one,…

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Sept. 11 that its energy index rose 16.3 percent for the 12 months ending August 2026, and that the gasoline index within it rose 27.4 percent over the same 12 months. The same release put the index for all items less food and energy, the measure usually called…

Executive Order 14425, titled Supporting America’s Ranchers, was signed on Sept. 4, 2026 and published in the Federal Register on Sept. 10. Its opening findings state that “the national herd is at a 75-year low, while consumer demand for beef has grown almost 10 percent over the past decade.” Most of what the order then…

Regular gasoline averaged $4.465 a gallon across the United States for the week ending September 28, 2026, and on-highway diesel averaged $6.382, according to the Energy Information Administration. Both prices slipped from the prior week, but both sit far above where they stood a year earlier, which is the comparison that matters for a household…