The federal reserve chair didn’t give a timeline at his speech on Wednesday for when to reduce its monetary stimulus, even though many say it’s fueling the price increases. The child care industry is experiencing a crisis. Workers are quitting and children need to get on wait lists for pre-school, with the treasury department calling it a text book example for a broken market. The U.K. government trying to avoid possible food shortages, as a natural gas crisis disrupts food and drink production.