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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s efforts to cool down the economy are causing progressive criticism to heat up. He has been accused of wanting a ...

With so much attention fixed on soaring prices for gasoline and groceries, one can almost overlook the fact that we’re also enduring an affordable hou...

With so much attention fixed on soaring prices for gasoline and groceries, one can almost overlook the fact that we’re also enduring an affordable hou...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve on Wednesday intensified its drive to tame high inflation by raising its key interest rate by three-quarters of ...

Inflation is likely to be the most powerful issue working for Republicans in this year’s congressional elections. Public concern over it has been risi...

The deadline for filing federal income taxes is later than usual this year. Tax Day has been pushed back to April 18 to avoid coinciding with the Dist...

Joe Biden is engaged in the most extensive test of whether an American president can survive elevated levels of inflation since Jimmy Carter, and it’s...

While much of the political world focused on the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, across town in Washington on Mo...

While much of the political world focused on the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, across town in Washington on Mo...

With U.S. inflation standing at a 40-year high of 7.9%, the Federal Reserve has finally begun to tighten monetary policy, with a small initial increas...

Gasoline? Up. Natural gas? Up. Wheat? Up. The spending power of your bank account? Down, down, down. The U.S. has been experiencing inflation at the h...

During the late 1970s, American families experienced stagflation — a combination of economic stagnation and significantly higher inflation. By the sum...

Prices have been increasing at the fastest rate in decades, but we haven’t been having a debate about inflation. We’ve been having five. We might do a...

The last year or so has been some big trouble for small businesses. It wasn’t unexpected. When stay-at-home orders were issued and capacity restrictio...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has just put the country’s financial stability at unnecessary risk, by refusing to extend programs that’ve kept...

Do you care more about higher prices at the grocery store or a steady job? Of course your answer will depend on your circumstances, but for the Federa...

Neel Kashkari, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, recently called for another, “more restrictive lockdown, state by state, for up t...

The coronavirus pandemic is impacting society in ways that most people never anticipated. Over the past week or so, local residents have seen signs be...

MORE SCAMS: Just about every day, we hear about another scam trying to separate people from their money. U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., has shared anothe...

Back in October, a Marketplace-Edison Research Poll found that two-thirds of Donald Trump voters didn’t trust government-reported economic data, thank...