Browsing: inflation
Ray Dalio says ‘most people are silent’ because they’re afraid to talk about what’s really happening with the U.S. economy
Billionaire investor Ray Dalio has delivered a stark warning about the state of American discourse around the nation’s economic challenges,…
As young Americans struggle with high costs of living and salaries that haven’t kept pace with inflation, some of them…
Top economist Torsten Slok warns of an ‘inflation mountain’ in a potential repeat of the ’70s
Now he sees an uncanny resemblance—almost an uncanny valley—between the inflation mountain range of the 1970s and ’80s and the…
The Fed’s independence is hanging by a thread, and this ‘nuclear’ scenario would signal ‘things are truly going off the rails,’ economists say
President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire a member of the Federal Reserve’s governing board has raised alarms among economists and…
The next few weeks will give Wall Street a clear reading on whether this latest stock market rally will continue…
The housing market is no longer a wealth-building engine as home prices continue to slump
High home prices and mortgage rates have created unaffordable conditions for many Americans, but the housing market’s ability to create…
What would the Fed do in a tie vote? It’s not clear, and the Bank of England had to break a deadlock this month
There has never been a tie vote on the rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee, but the Federal Reserve has also…
‘A different shock to the system’: De minimis tariff dodge ending means less purchasing power for Americans
The de minimis exemption—a tariff loophole that for years made millions of direct-to-consumer imports duty free—is gone, and its end…
Trump’s war on the Fed created a ‘twist steepener’ in the bond market and it’s hurting the dollar
A “twist steepener” in the bond market is widening the gap between short- and long-term U.S. Treasury yields. This dynamic…
‘It’s like when you see the tsunami coming in’: Agricultural economists are sounding the alarm about produce prices doubling
Milk prices jumping from $7 to $14, strawberries that feel like luxury goods, and a switch to processed food: This…












