This century has seen divergent price movement. Many consumer goods are cheaper, while critical categories like health and education have skyrocketed.
Expectations that inflation conveniently returns to previous cycle dynamics is wishful thinking. Hopes that central bankers can quickly conclude tightening cycles without the need to inflict pain are unrealistic.
Statista’s Advertising & Media Markets Insights estimates that worldwide metaverse revenue will stand at $490 billion in 2030. This is a comparatively conservative forecast. Other analyst companies assume a market volume of between approximately 750 an…
As inflation cooled down slower than expected in January and overall consumer prices rose 0.5 percent compared to the previous month, U.S. consumers showed little signs of frugality. According to preliminary estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, total…
Despite the surge in consumer prices, Americans haven’t lost their appetite for dining (and drinking) out. That’s according to the latest estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, showing that monthly sales of food services and drinking places amounted to…
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QT is incrementally improving the transmission of monetary policy by increasing the share of financial assets sensitive to the Fed’s policy rate. Although the policy rate is approaching 5%, trillions of bank deposits continue to offer around 0%. QT strengthens the transmission of policy by mechanically replacing bank deposits with policy rate sensitive Treasuries, and […]
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That technological revolution sure didn’t last long…………
Four flying objects have been shot down over the United States and Canada since February 4. The first, a 200-foot-tall balloon carrying an equipment-laden gondola the size of a regional airliner, was downed by a U.S. fighter jet off the coast of South …
This graphic charts the rise and fall of consumer confidence across the world over the past three years.
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