Daily Economy News
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Don’t Wait to Start Saving for Retirement
Starting to save earlier can be hugely profitable. This is all because of compound interest, which Einstein once called, “the eighth wonder of the world.”
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What if Something Happens? Basic Estate Planning
Estate planning is protection of everything you and your family have worked so hard to achieve. Estate planning is not only for the extremely wealthy.
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Beyond Better GDP Growth, Reasons For Concern
This morning, the Bureau of Economic Analysis released the revised estimates of the gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economy’s output, for the fourth quarter of 2015. According to the revised data, GDP rose 1 percent (annual rate) in the fourth quarter of 2015, somewhat faster than the 0.7 percent rate indicated by the…
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Bryant Students Explore Career Options at AIER
As part of our mission, the American Institute for Economic Research engages in multiple outreach activities promoting the love of economics, career readiness skills, and an experiential approach to learning. We are building the cadre of alumni of our education programs, who keep in touch with the Institute over time.
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Social Security: Beat the Deadline on File-and-Suspend
As we covered at the end of last year, the rules for Social Security have recently changed. The new rules mean the strategy of filing and suspending your benefits will no longer be beneficial for married spouses. But there is a window for some people to be grandfathered in under the old rules. Now, we…
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Too Early To Celebrate “Strengthening” Consumer Prices
The Consumer Price Index for January 2016 has attracted a lot of attention since it was released last Friday. But a look inside the numbers raises questions about its overall message of economic strength.
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Ask the Economist: Negative Interest Rates
A negative interest rate means a country’s central bank charges a fee for banks to hold some of their money there, in an effort to spur the economy. Janet Yellen said this option remains on the table, although the economy would need to worsen. But the Fed just did the opposite.
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Good News, Sorta: Things Haven’t Gotten Worse
If you’re a glass-half-full kind of person, the latest economic data should be a nice warm chocolate-chip cookie to dunk in your milk.
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Teaching High School Students About Unemployment
How would you use a sampling distribution to measure unemployment? Students at Lee Middle and High School, in Lee, Massachusetts, recently learned this lesson with some help from the American Institute for Economic Research.
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Don’t Wait to Start Saving for Retirement
Starting to save earlier can be hugely profitable. This is all because of compound interest, which Einstein once called, “the eighth wonder of the world.”
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•
What if Something Happens? Basic Estate Planning
Estate planning is protection of everything you and your family have worked so hard to achieve. Estate planning is not only for the extremely wealthy.
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•
Beyond Better GDP Growth, Reasons For Concern
This morning, the Bureau of Economic Analysis released the revised estimates of the gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economy’s output, for the fourth quarter of 2015. According to the revised data, GDP rose 1 percent (annual rate) in the fourth quarter of 2015, somewhat faster than the 0.7 percent rate indicated by the…
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Bryant Students Explore Career Options at AIER
As part of our mission, the American Institute for Economic Research engages in multiple outreach activities promoting the love of economics, career readiness skills, and an experiential approach to learning. We are building the cadre of alumni of our education programs, who keep in touch with the Institute over time.
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•
Social Security: Beat the Deadline on File-and-Suspend
As we covered at the end of last year, the rules for Social Security have recently changed. The new rules mean the strategy of filing and suspending your benefits will no longer be beneficial for married spouses. But there is a window for some people to be grandfathered in under the old rules. Now, we…
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•
Too Early To Celebrate “Strengthening” Consumer Prices
The Consumer Price Index for January 2016 has attracted a lot of attention since it was released last Friday. But a look inside the numbers raises questions about its overall message of economic strength.
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•
Ask the Economist: Negative Interest Rates
A negative interest rate means a country’s central bank charges a fee for banks to hold some of their money there, in an effort to spur the economy. Janet Yellen said this option remains on the table, although the economy would need to worsen. But the Fed just did the opposite.
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•
Good News, Sorta: Things Haven’t Gotten Worse
If you’re a glass-half-full kind of person, the latest economic data should be a nice warm chocolate-chip cookie to dunk in your milk.
-
•
Teaching High School Students About Unemployment
How would you use a sampling distribution to measure unemployment? Students at Lee Middle and High School, in Lee, Massachusetts, recently learned this lesson with some help from the American Institute for Economic Research.