Amid Inflation Relief, Rental Prices Continue Soaring
Annual inflation fell to 5 percent in March, the lowest mark in two years.
Annual inflation fell to 5 percent in March, the lowest mark in two years.
Excessive government interference in the market hurts consumers and thwarts policy goals. It also gets in the way of the government itself.
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Prices rose by 0.4 percent in February and core inflation was up 0.5 percent, the third consecutive month that it has increased.
While the population has grown, the number of college students has declined in the past decade.
Asian adversaries aerially admire American angst and apathy.
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January's consumer price data indicates another drop in annual inflation, but the past three months might tell a different story.
Fiscal stimulus during the pandemic contributed to an increase in inflation of about 2.6 percentage points.
Hungary's inflation hits 24.5 percent—the highest in the European Union—and Orbán's price controls aren't helping.
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Annual inflation was reported at 88 percent in October, up from 50 percent in January 2022.
The former labor secretary ignores the avian flu epidemic that devastated the supply of egg-laying hens.
From George Santos to Joe Biden, résumé padding is unacceptable. But it's all the lies about legislation we can't afford.
Inflation fell to 6.5 percent in December, but new House rules ensure that Congress will have to consider the inflationary impact of future spending bills.
We’d all be better off if politicians spared us their experiments in subsidies, wages, and trade.
Rents and home prices skyrocketed almost everywhere over the past two years. There's some hope new supply will bring costs down in the new year.
If lawmakers keep spending like they are, and if the Fed backs down from taming inflation, then the government may create a perfect storm.
The Congressional Budget Office projects that future deficits will explode. But there's a way out.
Food prices were up 0.5 percent during November, even as energy prices fell by about 1.6 percent.
It's especially outrageous when considering the billions of dollars in fraud that took place thanks to COVID-19 relief programs.
The Producer Price Index shows that grocery stores appear to be shielding consumers from inflation, not hiking prices to gouge Americans.
Instead of redirecting course, Biden is continuing Trump’s spending legacy.
Until next year's, because capitalism is always making things better.
It's still the economy, stupid.
The biggest beneficiaries of economic growth are poor people. But the deepest case for economic growth is a moral one.
With government meddling, many farmers end up doing less with more, and people end up paying more for less.
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A minimum wage increase passed in Nebraska and appears to have done the same in Nevada. In D.C., tipped workers will get a possibly unwelcome increase as well.
If the midterms favor Republicans, their top priority needs to be the fight against inflation—whether or not they feel like they created the problem.
In a now-deleted tweet, the official White House Twitter account attempted to frame a mandated cost-of-living increase in Social Security checks as the result of President Biden's good "leadership."
"The history of developed countries since 1970 is very discouraging about the prospects of bringing down 8 percent inflation," says Larry Summers.
The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis reports that GDP grew 0.6 percent in the third quarter of 2022.
The idea that the Fed has the knowledge necessary to control the economy with perfectly calibrated policies was always an illusion.
After just six weeks in office, the embattled Conservative leader is out.
The G Word, a new documentary, only occasionally covers serious issues. But it opts not to do honest reporting.
While campaigning for the midterm election, the president is promoting a disastrous and expensive form of economic protectionism.
Prices rose by 0.4 percent in September, faster than economists expected and indicating that rising interest rates aren't getting the job done.
Inflation is a problem for politicians. Unfortunately for them, it's not a problem they know how to solve.
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No new, interesting, or helpful food policies are coming from this administration.
His administration has expanded deficits by $400 billion more than expected, even before we count recent spending.
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This fiscal irresponsibility throws gasoline on the country's already raging inflation fire.