Credit and Debt – Page 28

How Do Higher Interest Rates Bring Down Inflation?

Our columnist is responding to readers’ questions. This week, he focuses on inflation, with the help of a bond maven and a Nobel laureate.

Readers ponder an impending horrible milestone. Also: Grief in our times; college debt; policies and public opinion; students’ letters.

The chief executive’s debt load, his divided attention and Twitter’s own challenges could all take a toll on his electric-car company.

America’s social mobility machine is broken.

Why raising interest rates here could lead to a lot of misery elsewhere.