Of the food categories in USDA’s September price outlook, only beef is forecast to climb faster than fresh vegetables. The Economic Research Service predicts the fresh-vegetable index will average 5.7 percent higher in 2026 than in 2025, and it labels that figure a forecast. The year is not over, so the number can still move.…

Two subtractions explain the headline. On-highway diesel averaged $6.382 a gallon in the week ending September 28, 2026, against $3.754 a year earlier, a gap of $2.628. Regular gasoline averaged $4.465 against $3.118, a gap of $1.347. Both figures come from the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s weekly survey. The arithmetic, line by line The EIA’s…

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has published its final fuel-economy rollback, and the agency’s own estimate has two sides. NHTSA says the rule reduces average up-front vehicle costs by about $1,290, and that it raises national gasoline consumption by 4.6 percent through 2050. The rule takes effect November 30, 2026. A rule with a…

Eggs cost 23.0 percent less in August 2026 than in August 2025, and that is the number that has actually been measured. The bigger figure in the headline, 29.4 percent, belongs to a different category of claim. USDA’s Economic Research Service now forecasts that egg prices will fall 29.4 percent across calendar 2026, a prediction…

A household that spends $200 a week on groceries is looking at $10,400 a year, and the question for 2027 is how much more or less that figure will be. USDA’s Economic Research Service has an answer with a catch. Its 2027 forecast for food at home is a rise of 1.8 percent, inside a…

Fireworks, toys, garden umbrellas and Christmas ornaments made in China are on a list of 77 U.S. tariff lines that Washington and Beijing have recommended for lower duties, covering roughly $30 billion of trade each way. The list came out of a board that President Donald Trump and China’s Xi Jinping set up in May.…

A 2-pound bag of Honeycrisp apples at Aldi now carries a $1.99 price tag, and family packs of Kirkwood chicken breast are $1.99 a pound. Both prices come from Aldi’s Sept. 23 fall price announcement, and the chain says they run through at least Nov. 3. Each is a claim by Aldi about its own…

Aldi has attached a dollar figure to its autumn markdowns: $86 million in shopper savings, across more than 2,600 U.S. stores, from Sept. 23 through at least Nov. 3. The grocer announced the round in a Sept. 23 press release. The number is Aldi’s own estimate, and the release does not lay out how it…

Amazon is doubling the fuel discount it gives Prime members on Fridays. From Oct. 2 through Jan. 29, members who have switched the offer on can take 20 cents off each gallon on one fill-up per Friday at more than 7,500 bp, Amoco, ampm and participating Thorntons stations, up from the usual 10 cents. Amazon…

California gas stations can start selling winter-blend gasoline right away, a little over a month ahead of the usual Nov. 1 switch, under an action Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Sept. 28. His office paired the announcement with an estimated $428 hit per California household from fuel costs over seven months. The release does not say…