(Hasbro, for one, isnвЂ™t planning on big hikes despite its higher shipping costs and forecasts of high demand for holiday gifts.) But a big question is how much companies can raise prices without hurting sales. For example, The TimesвЂ™s Kim Severson reports, nearly every part of Thanksgiving feasts - from baking tins to turkey - will cost more this year. Companies across the board have been raising prices.

Those issues are feeding into rising inflation. Hasbro: вЂњOur airfreight expense was much higher in the third quarter than it typically is, and we do expect it to be higher in the fourth quarter,вЂќ said Deborah Thomas, the toy makerвЂ™s C.F.O. Sherwin-Williams: The availability and cost of raw materials led the paint company to report a 30 percent drop in quarterly profit from a year ago.

G.E.: вЂњWeвЂ™re feeling the impact of supply-chain disruptions in many of our businesses, with the largest impact to date in health care,вЂќ said Larry Culp, the conglomerateвЂ™s C.E.O. ThatвЂ™s worrying corporate leaders, as shown by yesterdayвЂ™s earnings reports - and is putting more of a focus on rising inflation, to boot.

The shortages of components and difficulties in shipping goods that have plagued global supply chains havenвЂ™t eased as quickly as people had expected. Robinhood warned that the fourth quarter wonвЂ™t get better, expecting lower retail trading to continue. The trading platformвЂ™s third-quarter revenue fell well below expectations, as a surge in cryptocurrency transactions earlier in the year petered out. (Twitter also said it had suffered less than it had feared.)ДЄ sharp drop in crypto trading hits Robinhood. And Alphabet surpassed analyst expectations as it largely shrugged off effects from AppleвЂ™s limiting of ad-tracking on iPhones. Microsoft reported its biggest quarterly profit, again, as the pandemic helped spur huge demand for its cloud software. What blowout tech quarterly earnings reports tell us. The Biden administration sees childrenвЂ™s vaccines as a way to keep schools open and the economy running. Experts said the agency should authorize the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for 5- to 11-year-olds, putting 28 million children closer to getting inoculated. advisory panel recommends Covid shots for children. The proposal has an important backer: Senator Kyrsten Sinema, Democrat of Arizona, who has rejected other potential tax increases to pay for the Biden package.ДЄn F.D.A. companies to help fund President BidenвЂ™s social spending plans. Democratic lawmakers unveiled a plan to impose a 15 percent levy on the 200 biggest U.S. Otherwise, political troubles await: вЂњYouвЂ™re going to get very unhappy people around the world, in the emerging markets in particular but in the developed world,вЂќ he added.ДЄ corporate minimum tax is on the table. вЂњThereвЂ™s unanimity something should be done, but how you get from where we are today to a green world is utterly undefined,вЂќ Schwarzman said. Governments need to intervene, Schwarzman said, particularly to help manage the transition into greener energy. вЂњWe have these visions we could go from a brown world and we could wake up tomorrow thereвЂ™d be a green world,вЂќ he said at the F.I.I. Even Larry Fink of BlackRock, who has been among the biggest advocates for Wall Street adopting E.S.G., is worried that outflows from the fossil-fuel industry may be overdone. JPMorgan analysts wrote this year that as much as $600 billion must be invested in oil by 2030 to meet continued demand. Some think the energy shortfall could be huge. (Blackstone has invested in both fossil-fuel and renewable energy companies.) вЂњIf you try and raise money to drill holes, itвЂ™s almost impossible to get that money,вЂќ he said. That, according to Schwarzman, has made it hard for the industry to invest in new wells and other sources of capacity. So-called environmental, social and corporate governance investing principles have spurred investment giants to divest their holdings in oil and gas companies. is driving a credit crunch for oil and gas companies, Schwarzman and others say. oil prices hit $85 a barrel this week, a seven-year high.) Speaking at the Future Investment Initiative conference in Saudi Arabia, he warned that an energy shortage could lead to вЂњreal unrestвЂќ across the world - and put forward a provocative culprit.ДЄ focus on E.S.G. Steve Schwarzman, BlackstoneвЂ™s billionaire co-founder, became the latest financier to sound the alarm about an energy crunch. Are do-gooders driving the energy shortage?

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