Readers weigh in on President Trump’s “paradigm shift,” private equity vs. the S&P 500, cutting Social Security benefits, and the rate of inflation vs. absolute price levels.

When faced with supply-driven inflation, whether caused by factory closings and shipping bottlenecks or by tariffs, it is not ...

a move that economists say would likely stoke inflation. “The economy faces heightened uncertainty,” Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic said in an essay published Thursday. “A trade policy ...