Inflation Means Interest Rates Could Rise. Higher Interest Rates Will Make the National Debt More Expensive.
The Fed may soon get serious about hitting the monetary brakes to slow the economy.
The Fed may soon get serious about hitting the monetary brakes to slow the economy.
The president can't fix a problem he doesn't understand.
According to a recent poll, only 22 percent of people believe that the current state of the economy is "good" or "excellent."
Politicians point to corporate concentration they created to divert us from inflation they caused.
Addressing a distortion of the market with another distortion of the market will only make the problem worse.
Bad policy and unpredictable nature are sending food prices through the roof.
A one percentage point increase in interest rates translates into a $30 trillion increase in interest costs on the national debt.
Too Many (Government) Dollars Are Chasing Too Few Goods.
It sucked for avoidable reasons.
Politicians and cops found creative ways to dodge responsibility in 2021.
Deficit spending and debt are out of control, and dragging down the purchasing power of the dollar.
America needs to get its fiscal house in order.
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Turkey shows the danger of inflation and giving officials free rein to mess with money.
The president should be more worried about inflation, and government responsibility for it, than he's acting.
Warren's claim that oil companies are jacking up prices to turn a bigger profit doesn't stand up to even the slightest scrutiny.
The legislation will have a negative impact on the labor supply and send high prices soaring even higher.
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But also be thankful that Americans have been spared the worst of soaring food costs.
The cost of interest on the national debt will soon be a huge chunk of change.
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A good way to know you’re living through high inflation is when you’re discouraged from talking about it.
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But the people in power won’t even say as much, let alone do something about it.
Profligate government spending supposedly has nothing to do with it.
As inflation increases, we need a low-debt environment.
Monetary policy can't work optimally until we free up the economy in other important ways.
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The Wyoming Republican believes bitcoin provides a serious alternative store of value, will spur renewable energy, and just might save the dollar.
A new study finds that as the government expands, the private sector shrinks.
The Commerce Department is planning to hike tariffs on Canadian lumber from about 9 percent to more than 18 percent.
The value of our money may be the latest victim of pandemic-era policy.
The economic aid package paid people not to work. So it's no surprise that many aren't working.
The short-term inflation outlook isn't as grim as it looks, but the long-term situation could be awful
"It's an escape hatch from tyranny," writes the Human Rights Foundation's Alex Gladstein. "It's nothing less than freedom money."