Recently President Joe Biden said that he will take action to reduce high prices. He notes that prices, on average,…
When the Federal Reserve paused its interest rate increases last September, I worried that it stopped raising rates too soon.…
The Bureau of Labor Statistics just released the inflation data for December 2023. The Consumer Price Index increased by 0.3%…
Recently, Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said that with the inflation rate falling and the labor market cooling, interest rates…
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen recently talked about the progress that the Biden administration and the Federal Reserve have made toward…
The good news is that the annual inflation rate has fallen from a peak of 9.1% in June 2022 to…
As noted in a prior column, the country has started to experience the beginning of the dreaded wage-price spiral. This one,…
The September consumer price index (CPI) number indicated that the annual inflation rate was 3.7%. This is the same annual…
Once again, the Fed has eased up on its restrictive monetary policy too soon. Late last year the Fed stopped…
The Bureau of Labor Statistics just announced that the Consumer Price Index increased by a modest 0.2% in July. That…
President Biden recently took a victory lap when the latest economic data indicated the inflation rate for the past year…
Starting last June, I thought the Fed had it right and was fully prepared, as they said, to make price…
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased by only .1% in May. For the last…
The Bureau of Labor Statistics just released the Consumer Price Index for April. The CPI increased by 0.4%, bringing the 12-month inflation…
The Federal Reserve just announced the Federal Funds rate is raised by another 25 basis points, it's the 10th increase…