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MORE ALARM BELLS … America’s consumer price index (CPI) – the leading measure of inflation – grew by just 0.2 percent during the month of April,...
ALAN GREENSPAN: “WE’RE IN TROUBLE” Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan – who in late 2014 admitted that the federal government’s money-printing bonanza didn’t work –...
WHERE WILL THE LATEST GLOBAL SLOWDOWN LEAD US? The economy of Japan has not grown nominally in 20 years, according to data published by the Statistics Bureau...
AND IT’S ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE … || By FITSNEWS || Consumer prices rose by their highest level in more than two years last month...
One of the least discussed, but potentially most significant, provisions in President Obama’s budget is the use of the “chained consumer price index” (chained CPI), to...
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testified this week that our nation’s long term economic outlook has improved and that consumer inflation is a modest one percent....
The price of gold fell 13 percent in just two days this week – its biggest two-day decline in thirty-three years. What happened? “The most important...
BUT WILL IT HOLD? Inflationary pressure eased in November as consumer prices fell by 0.3 percent. Last month’s drop – driven by lower energy prices –...