The Fed's "Beige Book" anecdotal report gave a snapshot of an economy grappling with the effects of rising fuel prices from the Iran war. Businesses are passing higher transportation costs along to ...

January's CPI showed up fashionably late, thanks to that eye-blink of a government shutdown, and immediately tried to calm the room. Prices rose 2.4% year over year, 0.3 point softer than December and ...

The Federal Reserve’s latest Beige Book report indicates that US inflation pressures have intensified as a result of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, which have forced businesses to either absorb ...

U.S. economic activity increased modestly, employment rose slightly and prices increased moderately in recent weeks, according to a mixed report published on Wednesday by the Federal Reserve that may ...

An excerpt from Bitcoin: The Honest Money uses the rising cost of ice cream to explain how inflation devalues money, wages, savings, and time. When I was a teenager, I delivered newspapers. I earned ...

This book review is a web exclusive for the Spring 2026 issue of The Independent Review. All policy is family policy. As governments search for levers to reverse falling birth rates, it is easy to ...

Jerome Powell’s press conferences—sometimes market-moving events—have attracted less notice of late. With Donald Trump in the White House, the chair of the Federal Reserve faces competition for ...

The consumer price index moderated again in June 2024, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Thursday. The CPI annual inflation rate has declined to 3% from a 9.1% pandemic-era peak in 2022. Neither ...

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