Financial FAQs   FREDppi What is worse, inflation rates, say, of 4 to 5 percent—slightly above historical averages, and average gas pr...

Financial FAQs Where’s the inflation? It is barely rising, as consumers still wait for bargains, before they decide to buy. The overall...

It's time for the World Economic Forum, and this year more than 40 heads of state and 2,500 other participants are unlikely to run s...

Popular Economics Weekly The big question hovering over the markets (both stocks and bonds), is whether the Federal Reserve will finally b...

Popular Economics Weekly We have been there before. The Census Bureau reported that the poverty rate fell in 2013, the first drop since 20...

Popular Economics Weekly Paul Krugman is being too gentle with David Stockman , whose recent New York Times ‘rant’ glorifies the gold sta...

Popular Economics Weekly There are many ways to look at the “weak” 2 percent growth numbers for Q3, though just the ‘Advance Estimate’ and...

Financial FAQs There were 46.2 million Americans in poverty in 2011, as median household income decreased to its lowest level since 2000, ...

Financial FAQs We can no longer afford to listen to those conservatives who believe government is the problem, since there is no viable re...

Popular Economics Weekly The Japanese twin disasters—an earthquake plus Tsunami—have highlighted both why Japan’s economy has basically sp...

Financial FAQs The U.S. Senate has finally begun debate on financial reform, but only after eye-opening testimony at Senator Carl Levin’s Pe...