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    2.4 Trillion Reasons to Keep an Eye on Inflation

    Our Summer Speaker Series last week featured our research fellow, Jia Liu, speaking about her research to develop a forecast for inflation.

  • Measuring Your Economic Wellness

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    Measuring Your Economic Wellness

    You may be familiar with the common business practice of using financial ratios to assess financial performance. You can use this trick with your personal finances too. With just a few numbers, you can get a basic sense of your own economic and financial wellness, relative to what the experts recommend.

  • Brexit’s Complex Impact on the Economy

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    Brexit’s Complex Impact on the Economy

    The United Kingdom’s surprising June 23 referendum vote to leave the European Union caused dramatic short-term moves in global capital markets. Yet, less than a month after the historic vote on what we know as “Brexit,” much of the initial reaction across capital markets has reversed. 

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    Bitcoin’s Halving – Good or Bad News for Investors?

    The disappointing performance of the global financial markets this year has left many investors looking for better opportunities. Therefore, an investment like Bitcoin may catch their eyes. After all, its price has jumped from about $430 in January to about $660 today (July 14), a growth rate of slightly more than 50 percent

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    Three Reasons to Delay Your Social Security Benefits

    There are good reasons for most Americans to delay receiving Social Security benefits until age 70, even it means living off your savings for a few years, says financial planner Luke Delorme.

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    The Changing Link Between Economic Growth and Jobs

    It’s a relationship that economists and policymakers have long perceived as a given: Gross Domestic Product and the unemployment rate tend to move in unison. So during recessions, people lose their jobs, and once output turns around, hiring picks back up. But in a fascinating presentation, our Polina Vlasenko shows how this relationship is beginning…

  • 2Q Sales Expected to Show Improvement

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    2Q Sales Expected to Show Improvement

    Alcoa will report second quarter sales and profits after the close of U.S. trading today, marking the unofficial start of earnings season. Actually, 23 companies in the S&P 500 have already reported second-quarter results. When we blend those actual results with consensus expectations for those companies that have not yet reported, we find that topline…

  • Job Growth Improves

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    Job Growth Improves

    The Employment Situation Report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics this morning shows improvement in the labor market compared to the gloomy report last month.

  • Why Do Americans Feel Economic Anxiety?

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    Why Do Americans Feel Economic Anxiety?

    Marketplace with Kai Rysdal is one of my favorite radio programs.

  • Overdraft Protection: Know the Risks

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    Overdraft Protection: Know the Risks

    What is overdraft protection?

  • •

    2.4 Trillion Reasons to Keep an Eye on Inflation

    Our Summer Speaker Series last week featured our research fellow, Jia Liu, speaking about her research to develop a forecast for inflation.

  • Measuring Your Economic Wellness

    •

    Measuring Your Economic Wellness

    You may be familiar with the common business practice of using financial ratios to assess financial performance. You can use this trick with your personal finances too. With just a few numbers, you can get a basic sense of your own economic and financial wellness, relative to what the experts recommend.

  • Brexit’s Complex Impact on the Economy

    •

    Brexit’s Complex Impact on the Economy

    The United Kingdom’s surprising June 23 referendum vote to leave the European Union caused dramatic short-term moves in global capital markets. Yet, less than a month after the historic vote on what we know as “Brexit,” much of the initial reaction across capital markets has reversed. 

  • •

    Bitcoin’s Halving – Good or Bad News for Investors?

    The disappointing performance of the global financial markets this year has left many investors looking for better opportunities. Therefore, an investment like Bitcoin may catch their eyes. After all, its price has jumped from about $430 in January to about $660 today (July 14), a growth rate of slightly more than 50 percent

  • •

    Three Reasons to Delay Your Social Security Benefits

    There are good reasons for most Americans to delay receiving Social Security benefits until age 70, even it means living off your savings for a few years, says financial planner Luke Delorme.

  • •

    The Changing Link Between Economic Growth and Jobs

    It’s a relationship that economists and policymakers have long perceived as a given: Gross Domestic Product and the unemployment rate tend to move in unison. So during recessions, people lose their jobs, and once output turns around, hiring picks back up. But in a fascinating presentation, our Polina Vlasenko shows how this relationship is beginning…

  • 2Q Sales Expected to Show Improvement

    •

    2Q Sales Expected to Show Improvement

    Alcoa will report second quarter sales and profits after the close of U.S. trading today, marking the unofficial start of earnings season. Actually, 23 companies in the S&P 500 have already reported second-quarter results. When we blend those actual results with consensus expectations for those companies that have not yet reported, we find that topline…

  • Job Growth Improves

    •

    Job Growth Improves

    The Employment Situation Report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics this morning shows improvement in the labor market compared to the gloomy report last month.

  • Why Do Americans Feel Economic Anxiety?

    •

    Why Do Americans Feel Economic Anxiety?

    Marketplace with Kai Rysdal is one of my favorite radio programs.

  • Overdraft Protection: Know the Risks

    •

    Overdraft Protection: Know the Risks

    What is overdraft protection?