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Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers sits down with Yahoo Finance's Jennifer Schonberger to assess the Inflation Reduction Act's impact on taxes and employment, as well as the Fed's ...

Discover how insurance inflation protection secures benefits against inflation. Learn options, costs, and its impact on long-term care insurance premiums.

The article below is reprinted with permission from The Capital Issue, a quarterly newsletter published by Lancaster Pollard.Conventional wisdom has that looking back to the past often is the best way ...

I’m sure most of you have been reading recent inflation reports and, perhaps, worrying about how it impacts your everyday budget. Even harder to suss out is how inflation may eat into your retirement ...

High interest rates are meant to cool the economy and bring inflation down. But when they also keep the cost of houses high, it can have the opposite effect. The Federal Reserve held interest rates ...

Discover how the sacrifice ratio measures the cost of changing inflation on economic production and output, including its role in fiscal policy decisions.

“Inflation is tumbling, while employment is near a 50-year high.” - CBS 60 Minutes (Feb 4, 2024) “What I can say is that inflation has come down over the past year, and really sharply over the past ...

The emergence of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 may be starting to wear down Americans’ confidence in their finances in the middle of this holiday season. Consumer confidence dropped almost two ...

Consumerism is 70% of the economy, and because of this economic dominance, the confidence that consumers have in the current and future economy is critical to the whether the federal reserve’s recent ...