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Inflation ahead? Even a top economist says it's complicated
Inflation ahead? Even a top economist says it's complicated
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two months of sharply rising prices have raised concerns that record-high government financial aid and the Federal Reserve’s ultra-low interest rate policies — when the economy is already surging — have elevated the risk of accelerating inflation.
·apnews.com·
Inflation ahead? Even a top economist says it's complicated
Why Interest Rates Have to Stay Low For a Very Long Time
Why Interest Rates Have to Stay Low For a Very Long Time
Inflation is finally here, at its highest level since the aftermath of the 2008 crisis:We don't know if it's going to last but wages are finally rising, there is a shortage of seemingly everyt
·awealthofcommonsense.com·
Why Interest Rates Have to Stay Low For a Very Long Time
Mapped: The 25 Richest Countries in the World
Mapped: The 25 Richest Countries in the World
Which countries have the highest GDP per capita? This map breaks down the top 25 richest countries in the world.
·visualcapitalist.com·
Mapped: The 25 Richest Countries in the World
Exclusive: Pandemic could cost typical American woman nearly $600,000 in lifetime income
Exclusive: Pandemic could cost typical American woman nearly $600,000 in lifetime income
It's not just the loss of current income during the COVID crisis that will hurt millions of women financially, but also reduced future earnings and retirement benefits that will likely follow. As one economist put it, women may "eat the cost of the pandemic for the rest of their working lives."
·newsweek.com·
Exclusive: Pandemic could cost typical American woman nearly $600,000 in lifetime income
Median PCE Inflation
Median PCE Inflation
The median PCE is a measure of inflation computed by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. It ranks the components of inflation and picks the one in the middle as the measure of the longer-term trend in prices. Its construction makes it less sensitive to short-lived price fluctuations, thereby capturing the trend in prices. Released monthly.
·clevelandfed.org·
Median PCE Inflation
FRED Economic Data
FRED Economic Data
Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: Airline Fares in U.S. City Average
·fred.stlouisfed.org·
FRED Economic Data
US jobless claims fall again as some states end federal aid
US jobless claims fall again as some states end federal aid
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans sought unemployment benefits last week — the latest encouraging sign for the rebounding U.S. economy — just as Republican-led states are moving to cut off a federal benefit for the jobless.
·apnews.com·
US jobless claims fall again as some states end federal aid
Inflation 101
Inflation 101
We provide explanations of basic and fundamental concepts on the definition of inflation, measurement of inflation, costs of inflation, the importance of measuring and controlling inflation, the role of the Federal Reserve in inflation, and other concepts such as price indexes, hyperinflation, trend and underlying inflation, measures of inflation like CPI, core CPI, median CPI, trimmed-mean CPI, PCE, core PCE, and trimmed-mean PCE.
·clevelandfed.org·
Inflation 101
Inflation Is Here. What Now?
Inflation Is Here. What Now?
Prices are rising fast, in ways that seem temporary, yet this could change expectations in ways that are self-reinforcing.
·nytimes.com·
Inflation Is Here. What Now?
Where have all the low-wage workers gone?
Where have all the low-wage workers gone?
There’s a good chance that you’ve been to your local grocery store or stopped by your favorite fast food location and noticed signs for hiring bonuses, but why aren't more workers signing up?
·jadrian.substack.com·
Where have all the low-wage workers gone?
Prices | Restaurant-ing through history
Prices | Restaurant-ing through history
Restaurant prices in the 19th century (followed by 20th, below) Note: Until the mid-19th century prices were often quoted in shillings and pence, or in Spanish dollars. One Spanish bit = 12½¢; One …
·restaurant-ingthroughhistory.com·
Prices | Restaurant-ing through history