What if inflation was falling faster than the Federal Reserve thinks? getty If inflation were on its way down, would the Federal Reserve notice? By design, the central bank’s preferred inflation measu...
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Japan’s ‘Walking Dead’ Problem Lives On
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida wants to offer government support to heavily indebted firms in the hopes of resurrecting Asia’s second-biggest economy. David Mareuil – Pool/Getty Images No...
Is Inflation Finally Cooling Down?
AFP via Getty Images Key takeaways August’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) data was released early Tuesday morning, finding that headline inflation has increased 0.1% in August and core inflation has clim...
Libertarian Stalwart Calls Bitcoin A Speculation
Bitcoin holders’ recent experience has been a wild ride, says libertarian Gene Epstein. MediaNews Group via Getty Images “Bitcoin is currently money to a very limited degree. It’s a speculation....
Whatever Happened To The $15 Minimum Wage?
Workers demonstrate for the $15 minimum wage in New York City in 2017. LightRocket via Getty Images It seems like only yesterday that the $15 minimum wage was high on the agenda of every self-respecti...
Paul Krugman Likens Crypto Plunge with Subprime Mortgage Crisis
In his opinion piece published in The New York Times on Thursday, January 27, Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize-winning economist and a longtime crypto sceptic, compared the recent cryptocurrency crash with...