Policy Update
Meat industry hearings: No single answer to pricing issues; questions about expansion of slaughter capacity.
USDA nearing $7.4 billion in Biden admin.-issued pandemic aid
Biden administration blames China for Microsoft Exchange email hack
Hurdles ahead, but go-it-alone Dems want it bad
Funding issues stall talks on physical infrastructure measure
Social Security benefits COLA likely to be largest in decade | Billions paid in child tax credits
Advice to farmers on carbon credit trading: wait
Powell testifies | EU unveils climate change plan | Debt limit | Inflation accelerates
Analysts don’t know how to size up HRS wheat crop | Brazil corn crop lowered again
Child tax credit payouts start today | Recap of, reaction to Biden’s executive order
Fed chair Powell testifies twice this week | Biden meets German leader Merkel