Over the past month, campaigners have been celebrating moves to get the world’s biggest oil companies to address climate change. In the U.S., shareholders of Exxon Mobil Corp.

Some prominent economists are concerned that the U.S. is entering an era of permanently higher inflation, but Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell believe the current spike will be temporary. So far, this debate has largely been missing three dimensions: what the best forecasters are saying, what’s happening in other countries, and steps that can be taken to attenuate problems in the supply chain.

Before vaccines became the core tool to fight COVID-19, it was testing. Now, with inoculations on the rise, demand for testing is declining, a development that led diagnostic giant Abbott Laboratories to slash its 2021 profit guidance. But the pandemic is far from over — testing will continue to be essential in the struggle to control outbreaks, identify emerging variants and allow for safe reopenings.

The boss of AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc., Adam Aron, gained an unexpected ally in his pandemic mission to keep his movie theaters afloat: a devoted army of retail investors who’d like nothing better than to inflict big losses on short-sellers betting against the debt-laden cinema chain.

My family visited Hudson, New York, for a couple of days in March for the same reason everyone goes there. It’s a cool little town surrounded by the Hudson Valley and stocked with wonderful food, crafts, shops and people. We used Airbnb.com to rent a place for our stay.

The rollout of COVID-19 vaccines developed by AstraZeneca Plc and the University of Oxford and Johnson & Johnson has been marred by rare but serious blood-clotting side effects that resulted in some deaths.

Jeff Bezos might as well join the crowd and call it Amazon+. No other company’s calculus is more deserving.

The rapid development and rollout of effective vaccines have been game changers in the fight against COVID-19. But these shots don’t offer unlimited protection.

The vaccinated can now go maskless. (Mostly.)

Pavlov would be lovin’ it.