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Especially during times when the economy is in flux—such as in early 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic was causing economic shutdowns,...

To say that inflation has been in the financial headlines lately would be a bit of an understatement. Consider just a few recent...

Arguably the wildest consequence of the recent pandemic is the remarkable price boom in the US housing market—which, some might remember,...

In our most recent newsletter, we discussed the recent uptick in inflation, as measured in the US economy by the Consumer Price Index...

As we enter the fourth quarter of 2021, attention is being focused on the rate of growth in the US economy and analysts are submitting...

It seems likely that many of us sometimes wonder what we get in return for our tax dollars. The question isn’t so far-fetched; after all,...

As everyone knows, the pandemic lockdown in spring 2020 shuttered economies around the world, sending markets into a tailspin and...

We are accustomed to regular reports on the rate of inflation from the US Department of Labor. Inflation, measured by the amount of...

Since the 2008 financial crisis that led to the Great Recession, the US Federal Reserve has targeted a 2% annual rate of inflation as the...