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The National Debt Is Making Us Poorer
Reason.com via Yahoo Finance· 2 days agoMeinert on Unsplash Many Americans are unhappy about years of higher-than-normal inflation that have sapped buying power and reduced standards of living....
Projections vs. scenarios, and why politicians should care
Orange County Register· 6 days agoThe CBO knows this and recently released alternative scenarios based on different sets of...
Opinion: A value-added tax is one solution to the crippling debt problem
NBC Chicago· 2 days agoInterest on the national debt in 2024 will cost a staggering $870 billion. This sum exceeds the amount we spend on defense, which is the largest of the discretionary items in the budget, according ...
Tulsa speaks up: Letters to the editor for the week of May. 31, 2024
Tulsa World· 7 days agoOn the day before, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office reported that the things Americans...
Why is everyone so grumpy about the economy?
The Raw Story· 3 days agoAmericans think the economy sucks and while the Democratic response of “nuh uh!” is technically correct, it’s probably not politically viable. People...
PCE Inflation Keeps Markets in Limbo
InvestorPlace· 6 days agoCore PCE, the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge, increased 0.2% month-over-month. The report also included the latest statistics on income and spending....
Federal duplication and overlap: same story, bigger numbers
Federal News Network· 2 days agoTom Temin And I think it’s fair to say that the immediate assumption that one has when this report...
Trump's Plan to Supercharge Inflation
The Atlantic· 5 days agoAmong prominent economists, no one was more explicit than former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers in warning that President Joe Biden and the Federal Reserve Board risked igniting inflation ...
3 times in a week, teens led officers on high-speed chases in Sacramento area
ABC 10 Sacramento· 2 days agoA 55-year-old man is dead after he was hit by a car involved in a high-speed chase in Elk Grove....