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Everyone knows by now that inflation is rising, and the latest data from the Producer Price Index (PPI) make it clear that the growth of inflation could continue to accelerate in the future The...
For consumers and investors today, inflation is one of the problems at the forefront of their minds Prices of goods are rising everywhere they look, and there’s no telling when it will end...
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...
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 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...
With the recent news that year-on-year inflation has reached 5%, a level not seen in over a decade, the rising prices that consumers have been seeing for months are finally reflected in official...
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...
Sometimes it can be tough to be critical of the Federal Reserve On the one hand, the Fed's conduct of monetary policy has been incredibly damaging in so many ways It has helped spur inflation, it has...
The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) held its most recent meeting this week and, while it didn’t deliver any surprises on the surface, digging deeper into the Committee’s...
While prices throughout the economy have risen significantly over the past few months, they’re not the only thing growing Fears of inflation have been rising too, as more and more households are...
For over a decade, official government inflation figures have told the story that inflation is stuck around 2% No matter what the Federal Reserve did to try to boost inflation, and how many trillions...
Federal Reserve Chairman Jay Powell seems like a nice enough guy And unlike his predecessors, he seems like a pretty straight shooter But sometimes the plain English coming from his mouth is enough...
When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) was first elected to Congress in 2018, she was part of a left-wing wave that handed control of Congress to Democrats AOC’s views were among the most radical of...
While much of the attention surrounding discussion of stimulus spending focuses on Congress, hardly anyone seems to be paying attention to the organization enabling Congress’ spending: the Federal...
Because 2020 was such a strange year in so many ways, we’re all hoping that 2021 will be better But 2021 could be a dangerous year for many investors While 2020 has turned out to be not as bad as...
With stock markets continuing to push toward new record highs, there has been much talk about the US entering another “Roaring Twenties” The 1920s have become almost legendary in popular culture,...
The gold price isn’t just watched by gold investors, it’s also watched by market observers as a barometer of economic health When the gold price begins rising, and especially when it rises...
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