By The 2024 election will be here before you know it, and economists are watching it closely.If Donald Trump wins a second term, some experts believe it could affect the trajectory of inflation in the United States — that a second Trump term would mean higher tariffs, higher deficits and other policies that would increase…
By Make sure your savings earns a meaningful return in today’s inflationary environment. Getty Images Inflation has run hot thus far in 2024. Although January’s 3.1% inflation rate was lower than December’s 3.4% rate, it was higher than economists expected. And, in February and March, price growth started to speed up across the United States…
By (Bloomberg) — “Mixed” messages from key US economic data and the accompanying swings in stock markets mean investors should load up on defensive sectors such as consumer staples, according to Morgan Stanley strategists.Most Read from BloombergApril Inflation figures due next week will offer fresh insights about the US economy after employment data out Friday…
By Rising prices have made people grumpy. They have depressed consumer confidence, despite a growing economy and low unemployment.But exactly how inflation is hurting, helping and confusing people is hard to understand. Everyone knows that the cost of living has increased. Yet unless you’re constantly pulling out a calculator, you’re unlikely to know whether your…
By Rising prices have made people grumpy. They have depressed consumer confidence, despite a growing economy and low unemployment.But exactly how inflation is hurting, helping and confusing people is hard to understand. Everyone knows that the cost of living has increased. Yet unless you’re constantly pulling out a calculator, you’re unlikely to know whether your…
By I wrote last week about the central role that inflation will play in defining the outcome of the forthcoming US election.Issues Among Likely VotersData for Progress Since then, a number of people have pointed me towards a recent paper by Stefanie Stantcheva at Harvard who updates a classic 1997 work by the great Robert…
By The Federal Reserve’s difficult task suddenly looks even harder. The central bank’s goal has been to restrain demand enough to push inflation gently back to its 2% target without tipping the economy into a recession. Up to now, its strategy has worked well: Inflation has fallen sharply from its post-Covid peak and the economy…
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By Inflationary headwinds have clouded economic forecasts as a new report brings mixed news.Inflation ran hot for a third consecutive month in March, raising questions about when the Federal Reserve can begin cutting interest rates. Overall prices increased 3.5% from a year earlier, according to the Labor Department’s consumer price index.Though inflation has cooled from post-pandemic highs…
By Consumer prices ticked up again in March, rising to anywhere from 3.2% to 3.8% year-over-year, depending on the rate you’re tracking. Of course, that’s way down from what it was back in 2022. But don’t tell that to any of my clients – or people running businesses in just about every industry across the…