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Demand and output for cardboard boxes and other packaging material fell sharply in the fourth quarter of 2022, according to data released by the American Forest & Paper Association and Fibre Box Association on Friday. It’s the latest indicator that consumer demand is eroding following the pandemic. Dwindling savings, inflation, rising interest rates and fears …

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An era of cheap debt that helped lift prices on hotels, office buildings and other U.S. commercial properties to dizzying new heights has ended. Borrowers thirsty for financing have watched mortgage rates roughly double in 2022 from the 3% lows, spillover from the Federal Reserve’s inflation fight that could cost several million people their jobs.

The value of the U.S. dollar is surging at a moment when there are few clear bright spots in the American economy. It’s now the strongest it has been in two decades, and it’s poised to get even stronger. The new power of the greenback is roiling economies and markets around the globe, and creating …

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New Jersey approved new guidelines for warehouse development, giving its municipalitiestools to stop what critics call the sprawl of industrial properties that’s come with the rise ofe-commerce — and triggered concerns across the nation.

Many who read this will wonder why it needs to be written. After all, wouldn’t it be obvious? But I have it on good authority from those in the supply-chain-sourcing trenches that most companies do not consider geopolitical risk when choosing countries to source from.