Everything costs more than it did three years ago, and I wanted to know when that would finally change. I wanted to know when actual prices would drop back to where they used to be after months of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about economic policy for the 21st century. Last month, I warned that gasoline prices could rise to perhaps $10 a gallon.

Even if peace holds up between the US and Iran, oil prices aren’t going back down to where they were any time soon. By Thursday morning, 10 vessels that had been stranded for all 110 days of the ...