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 are rising throughout the economy. And those price rises are starting to affect everyone. The...
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 Reserve will continue to purchase Treasury securities and mortgage-backed securities to the tune of nearly $1.5 trillion per year....
Have your grocery bills risen significantly this year due to inflation? Fed Chairman Jay Powell isn't concerned in the least.
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 Fed’s arguments to that effect are so flimsy that you have to really wonder if the Fed even realizes what is...
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 staggering. The Federal Reserve’s balance sheet has more than doubled from its pre-COVID days, to over...
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 is creating trillions of dollars out of thin air to support that spending. All that money flooding...
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 reality is that the Fed can’t normalize monetary policy, as any attempt to do so...
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 distant memory, and the only knowledge they have of it comes from history books or economics lectures...
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 opposite: deflation. Since the 2008 financial crisis, there have been more than a handful of analysts who...
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 people. Inflation is becoming a topic of discussion for more and more people as the pace of inflation...