Prices rose 2.6% between October 2023 and the same month in 2024, an unremarkable figure. Yet, inflation seems to be on everyone’s minds. This month, higher prices helped deliver the presidency from ...

In typical fashion, the cost estimates that helped sell the IRA were large, yet far lower than the actual massive price tag. The Cato Institute cited Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA) and Rep. Alexandria ...

Whether it’s actual inflation, or the kind of “inflation” that only economists and their media enablers tend to imagine it to be, a consensus invariably emerges that the Federal Reserve must “raise ...

For a century, economists have taught us to fear falling prices. But the deflation phobia stems from a misreading of the ...

The US markets have been focused on the fight against inflation for some time now, with every bit of news and every data release being seen through the lens of how it might impact the Fed’s decisions ...

As the Biden administration struggles to navigate treacherous economic waters, it has become increasingly evident that the blame is being misplaced. The printing of trillions of dollars to fund ...

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We’ve always had periods of inflation in the past. Then the experts gave all sorts of complex reasons for inflation and discussed wage and price controls. But now they give no reasons and just call it ...

Stagflation combines slowing economic growth, high unemployment, and inflation. This is how it's caused, it could affect you, ...

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interests.” Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776) Lately, Joe ...