James R. Hood

Fairfax, VA
Jim Hood is a grizzled veteran of the news business. After 14 years at the Associated Press, he founded Zapnews and ConsumerAffairs.com. In his dotage he runs The Outraged Consumer on Substack and ConsumerNews.ai.
Trump pulls back from Iran strikes and oil drops below $90 a barrel, but wholesale prices jump 6.5 percent, jobless claims hit a four-month high and the appeals court keeps the 10 percent tariff alive

Trump pulls back from Iran strikes and oil drops below $90 a barrel, but wholesale prices jump 6.5 percent, jobless claims hit a four-month high and the appeals court keeps the 10 percent tariff alive

By Perplexity For the first time in two weeks, the dominant consumer-news story Friday morning was de-escalation rather than escalation. President Trump canceled planned strikes against Iran late Thursday — with U.S. Navy crews about three hours from launch — and announced a framework deal could be reached "
James R. Hood