When inflation started getting bad, there were concerns that workers would create a wage-price spiral by asking for pay raises. Sarah Gonzalez with our Planet Money podcast says there are now ...
The new paper by a group of economists from Harvard and the International Monetary Fund, headlined by former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers said that that rising interest rates were as much a part ...
The 2.8% Social Security COLA for 2026 has been announced, but will it cover your rising costs? Learn how it's calculated and ...
Such a policy can be operationalized by adding a quantitative clause to whatever inflation target measure or formula mandated ...
The probability of a draw from a normal distribution being 0.59 standard deviations below the mean is about 33.5%, which means that if you hedge your inflation exposure with INFL, you’ll underperform ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation in the United States dropped last month to its lowest point since it first began surging more than three years ago, adding to a spate of encouraging economic news in the ...
DIGHTON — Figures for state aid to local schools are in. How are they reacting? "Our district, and many others, are getting crucified by the state's minimum funding formula," Dighton-Rehoboth ...
Local education leaders around Missouri say the formula that determines state funding of public schools hasn't kept up with inflation and other pressures that districts face in 2023. At least 35 ...