Paying More for Food? The Fed Doesn’t Care
One of the defining characteristics of President Trump’s tenure was the unmasking of how elites felt about the common American President Trump positioned himself as the champion of the ignored and...
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One of the defining characteristics of President Trump’s tenure was the unmasking of how elites felt about the common American President Trump positioned himself as the champion of the ignored and...
It seems like there has hardly been a time when the national debt wasn’t an important national issue For most of our lives, the size of the national debt has been increasing, both in nominal...
Rising inflation is an indicator to even those who don’t pay regular attention to the economy that the world is awash in money And the amount of money circulating throughout the economy today is...
Rising inflation may be getting all the headlines today, but there’s a reason inflation is rising so high The federal government is spending money at an unprecedented rate, and the Federal Reserve...
Talk of the Federal Reserve tapering its asset purchases have Wall Street afraid that easy money is coming to an end But don’t believe the hype you read in the mainstream financial media The...
With a median age of 38 years old, the majority of Americans alive today have no experience with stagflation To them, stagflation was something this country suffered through during the 1970s, a...
While inflation has been on the minds of millions of Americans in recent weeks, and has dominated discussion among financial media analysts, there are still some pundits who are worried about the...
While perceptive consumers and investors have been watching prices increase slowly for months now, those prices increases are picking up, putting them on the radar screens of an increasing number of...
One of the biggest fears that Wall Street has is that the Federal Reserve will turn off the monetary spigot Having pumped trillions of dollars into the financial system over the past year, banks and...
If there’s one characteristic about US monetary policy that has stood the test of time, it’s that policymakers have almost always presented a united front Even when they may disagree with each...
If you don’t know what a reverse repo is, you can be excused for not knowing that Most people who follow markets don’t even know what they are or how they work, let alone follow trends in reverse...
With a Democrat in the White House and Democrats in control of Congress, it perhaps shouldn’t be surprising that President Biden is starting to pull out all the stops to raise taxes And one of his...
While fears of inflation are growing in the United States, inflation has shown itself to be a global phenomenon One of the major areas of concern in the US is housing prices, which continue to rise...
In the history of depressions and financial crises, the Great Depression ranks right up there as the worst crisis to hit the modern world Although some who lived at that time quipped that the...
Rising inflation has been in the forefront of many people’s minds today Prices at the pump and at the grocery store have been rising steadily for months Those in the market for a new or used car or...
It’s probably no surprise to most people that the United States is suffering under the burden of heavy debt Governments, corporations, and households are all more indebted than they ever have been...
There’s an old saying when it comes to investing that markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent We’ve seen the development of an “everything bubble” over the past several...