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Measuring key aspects of a nation’s economy is important, but the metrics used are often misunderstood by many. Quantifying output of goods and services, price levels, and labor use provides ...
Keeping up with the bills got harder for many households in November and October, as income failed to keep up with price increases according to a new government report.
About the author: J.W. Mason is a professor of economics at John Jay College and the City University of New York, and a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. A lingering puzzle about inflation is why the ...
Meet ALICE. It's an alternative inflation metric, designed to measure the effects on price movements on economically stressed households better than more traditional models like CPI. Among his first ...
Statistics agency will use more than a billion supermarket checkout and online sales data to replace manual price collection ...
The game of inflation Whack-A-Mole: price pressures shifted from housing to non-housing services and core goods. The YoY MCT accelerated to 2.86% in January, from 2.63% in December, the worst increase ...
Among his first executive actions, President Trump told agencies this week to, quote, "deliver emergency price relief to Americans," - with few details. There is a lot riding on Trump's memo, given ...