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The minds of everyone on Main Street are on inflation and the effect it is having on driving up their cost of living The minds of everyone on Wall Street are on the Federal Reserve and whether or not...
Months after the COVID vaccine became readily available to most Americans, the country has just reached the milestone of at least 70% of eligible Americans having received at least one shot But with...
Many people fear the specter of a recession Declining economic growth, higher unemployment, and inflation are all among the hallmarks of recessionary periods Businesses fail, workers fear job loss,...
Inflation is a topic that’s on the tip of most people’s tongues, and at the forefront of their minds Even if you’re a big saver and financially frugal, you can’t help but notice how prices...
With fears of high inflation continuing to mount, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decided to throw caution to the wind, maintaining its accommodative stance of monetary policy The Federal...
It’s safe to say that gold, and investing in gold, has a reputation for appealing to old people Many investors think of gold as a stodgy, old-fashioned asset that has lost its relevance in the...
In the annals of central banking economic literature, there is one name that looms large: Walter Bagehot As editor of The Economist from 1861-1877, he built up that publication’s reputation and...
To say that there’s a great deal of unease going on in markets today is a bit of an understatement Fears of renewed lockdowns are causing markets to yo-yo Rising inflation is harming consumers and...
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...
With the latest inflation data having just recently been published, the Federal Reserve’s insistence that high inflation is merely “transitory” looks increasingly like a joke In fact, the...
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...
