Economic Indicators

PepsiCo, the maker of popular chip brands Lay’s, Doritos and Ruffles, is increasing snack sizes at a time when sales have lagged.

Fans of Whole Foods’ iconic Berry Chantilly Cake have been up in arms on social media over the past few weeks. One TikTok user showed a single slice stuffed with compote and with fruit on the side. In the past, the user said, the layers had been filled with fresh fruit and cream.

The unemployment rate fell 0.1 percentage point to 4.1%.

A surge in immigration means the economy needs to create between 145,000 and 200,000 jobs per month to keep up with growth in the working-age population.

One manufacturer included in the Dallas Fed's latest survey said growth in the category typically aligns with a slowing economy.

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The U.S. economy has added roughly 19 million jobs in four years. But as of the end of 2023, 43 percent of counties still hadn’t regained all the jobs they lost in the early months of the pandemic.

One economist called these numbers “a perfect report for the Fed.”

One weird trick for tracking the health of China's economy? Look at how many Swiss watches it's importing....

The battle is far from over, but there seems to be reason for optimism.

Ignore the haters: living standards have improved a lot since the 1980s.

Argentines, famed for steakhouses, sprawling cattle ranches and asado barbecues, are consuming less beef than ever, forced to tighten their belts by triple-digit inflation and a recession.

Inflation, but make it slower The latest Consumer Price Index (CPI), a weighted basket of various goods and services, was unchanged month-over-month...

For better or for worse, inflation is here to stay. This game lets you practice your decision making centered around the rise and fall of prices and interest rates. Inflation stinks--nobody likes paying more for the goods and services they buy. But since interest rates are the tool most commonly used by the Federal Reserve to bring inflation down, that means it's possible to mitigate the damage of inflation by choosing what to do with your finances based on their rise and fall.

Inflation may have slowed last year, but it continued to deal heavy blows — some devastating — on Americans’ livelihoods: Nearly two-thirds of US households were worse off because of it, and roughly 1 in 6 adults couldn’t pay all their monthly bills, new Federal Reserve data shows.

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If high inflation hurts just about everyone, why can’t we have no inflation?

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Vinyl is popular again and economists are noticing.

Where do recessions come from?

Explore resources provided by the Research Division at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

How much the Tooth Fairy gives for a lost tooth in 2024 has dropped with cooling inflation.

Of the $61 billion earmarked for Ukraine, 64% would flow back to US defense contractors that make the weapons.

prices for electrical goods and appliances in the 1980's examples from The People History Site

Inflation isn't entirely tamed and most stuff ain't cheap.

A man entered Magic Kingdom recently using a 1978 ticket that cost $8 at the time

"Hazlitt’s thesis is that bad money will inevitably result in bad behavior. This might be a tough thesis to swallow — particularly for those who live in the age of fiat money." ~Jon Miltimore

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