raising a child
Prices
How the Cost of Children Has Changed

Knowing that tomorrow is National Tooth Fairy Day, the Tooth Fairy could be smiling…but not for long. Like most childcare costs, the Tooth Fairy’s expenses have been rising recently. Cost of Children Tooth Fairy If the Tooth Fairy visited your…

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The Mystery of the Shrinking Pretzel Packages

We have a mystery when we see that corporations are shrinking packages while their CEOs’ inflation expectations are uninformed.

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Prices
How Your Generation Spends Its Money

Looking at generational spending, we can see our age-related expenses and also how inflation will affect the different groups.

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Prices
Why the CPI Should Have Been Higher

The U.S. BLS will be using real time data from J.D. Power for new cars and trucks in its May CPI (Consumer Price Index) release.

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Prices
6 Facts: What We’d Like To Know About Inflation (and Milk)

Ranging from milk to Argentina, while the range of inflation facts is massive, always they return us to the meaning of a price.

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Prices
The People With the Most and Least Inflation

While monthly CPI reports emphasize the average increase in prices, we can also use it to see the differences in household spending.

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Why Social Security Should Look at Senior Spending

Based on the Consumer Price Index, cost-of-living changes in a senior’s Social Security check could be more accurately calculated.

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Macroeconomic Measurement
When a Grade Is Like a Price

Looking at grade inflation at colleges and universities, we can ask whether the increase can be compared to prices.

Weekly Economic News Roundup and Zimbabwe inflation
Macroeconomic Measurement
Inflation Clues From Sticky Prices

To solve the mystery created by the inflation worries that are in the news, we can look at sticky and flexible prices.

CEO inflation expectations
Macroeconomic Measurement
What the CPI Is Hiding

A Consumer Price Index (CPI) that went up by just .6 percent during the past year hides a much larger increase in some grocery prices.

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