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Krugman faults the voters, in effect, for failing to accept the superior wisdom of a columnist at The New York Times...
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Millions of businesses were weeks from a deadline and punishments they didn't even know about...
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Overall passenger figures, however, are still marginally below their 2019 level...
...pop queen Taylor Swift has once more topped the global charts as the most streamed artist this year, after having come first in 2023 and second in 2022...
Along with that surge in confidence came a jump in inflation expectations...
The average American household allocated $9,986 - or 13% of their total expenditures - toward food...
A cornerstone of the American dream is that each generation does better than the last, building and benefiting from growing economic opportunities... But this does not necessarily hold true for all Americans.
...a household making between two-thirds to double the median annual income is considered middle class.
Importantly, Trump’s team understands that it is impossible to tax our way out of this situation. The only path forward is to grow the economy faster than the debt. Once we turn that corner, the problem begins to address itself...
Not exactly rate-cutting-type numbers, eh?
Many ascribe this to stagnant wages and higher prices for things like gas, groceries, and utilities that began in 2021 and persist to this day...
“Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.”
Worse still, wage inflation re-accelerated...
Through monetary policies (inflation) that aim at stabilizing the price level, the Fed actually undermines economic fundamentals...
...a severe housing affordability crisis that has persisted for years, leaving millions of Americans struggling to keep a roof over their heads...
....a third of respondents in the U.S. say that political or ideological bias is the greatest challenge facing their country’s educational system today...
Washington, D.C. leads the U.S. in average federal student loan debt at $54,795 per borrower and has the highest share of borrowers, with 17.2% of residents in debt.