Inflation
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AIER’s Thanksgiving Index Near All-Time High: Costs Rise Again As Inflation Persists
Turkey and trimmings will be at or near all-time price highs. New data reveal a slow reacceleration in food-at-home prices driven by energy, labor, and supply-chain costs.
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Milei’s Mandate: Argentina Bets on Austerity Again
Argentine voters handed Javier Milei a decisive win, rewarding his radical fiscal reforms. Now, the challenge shifts from crisis management to structural overhaul.
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Fed Cuts Rates for Second Straight Meeting
Inflation remains stubbornly high and employment is softening. The Fed’s “balanced approach” marginally lowered interest rates again.
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One Vote Away: The Balanced-Budget Amendment That Almost Passed
Decades after Congress missed a golden opportunity, it’s time to get serious about controlling runaway federal debt.
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Electricity Prices are the New Inflation Flashpoint
As AI data centers, clean-energy mandates, and regulations collide, the power grid is becoming a battlefield.
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Frankenstein’s Money Press: How Washington Unleashed the Modern Monetary Monster
Governments thought they could summon endless wealth from thin air. Instead, Modern Monetary Theory unleashed inflation, eroded trust, and left the Fed cornered by its own creation.
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We Have Never Been Austere
Austerity never means “spending less,” only growing a bit more slowly. That rhetorical dodge created a permanently expansionary state, in real, per-capita, and GDP-adjusted terms.
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Slower Inflation But Rising Uncertainty in September
Modest cooling in consumer prices masks deeper pressures from tariffs and energy costs. The Fed must weigh short-term relief against the risk of tightening too late.
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Argentina’s Midterm Moment: Brave Reform, or Back to Perónism?
Javier Milei’s aggressive reforms have slashed spending, curbed inflation, and reignited growth. Argentina’s midterms will decide whether reform endures.
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Shooting the American Dream in the Foot?
An expanding, interventionist state is crushing the atmosphere of opportunity that once allowed the middle class to build itself up.
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AIER’s Thanksgiving Index Near All-Time High: Costs Rise Again As Inflation Persists
Turkey and trimmings will be at or near all-time price highs. New data reveal a slow reacceleration in food-at-home prices driven by energy, labor, and supply-chain costs.
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•
Milei’s Mandate: Argentina Bets on Austerity Again
Argentine voters handed Javier Milei a decisive win, rewarding his radical fiscal reforms. Now, the challenge shifts from crisis management to structural overhaul.
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•
Fed Cuts Rates for Second Straight Meeting
Inflation remains stubbornly high and employment is softening. The Fed’s “balanced approach” marginally lowered interest rates again.
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•
One Vote Away: The Balanced-Budget Amendment That Almost Passed
Decades after Congress missed a golden opportunity, it’s time to get serious about controlling runaway federal debt.
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•
Electricity Prices are the New Inflation Flashpoint
As AI data centers, clean-energy mandates, and regulations collide, the power grid is becoming a battlefield.
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•
Frankenstein’s Money Press: How Washington Unleashed the Modern Monetary Monster
Governments thought they could summon endless wealth from thin air. Instead, Modern Monetary Theory unleashed inflation, eroded trust, and left the Fed cornered by its own creation.
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•
We Have Never Been Austere
Austerity never means “spending less,” only growing a bit more slowly. That rhetorical dodge created a permanently expansionary state, in real, per-capita, and GDP-adjusted terms.
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•
Slower Inflation But Rising Uncertainty in September
Modest cooling in consumer prices masks deeper pressures from tariffs and energy costs. The Fed must weigh short-term relief against the risk of tightening too late.
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•
Argentina’s Midterm Moment: Brave Reform, or Back to Perónism?
Javier Milei’s aggressive reforms have slashed spending, curbed inflation, and reignited growth. Argentina’s midterms will decide whether reform endures.
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•
Shooting the American Dream in the Foot?
An expanding, interventionist state is crushing the atmosphere of opportunity that once allowed the middle class to build itself up.