We interrupt your gas pump happy dance with rotten news: Inflation, as measured by the headline Consumer Price Index showed that in August, prices were up 8.3 percent from a year ago.
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What financial task did you put on hold for the summer? If you are like many, the broad category of dealing with unpleasant issues got pushed to the back burner.
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When my 98-year-old mother-in-law passed away this month, I thought back to the first time I met her, and how we eventually bonded over numbers.
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When the Social Security Administration announces cost-of-living-adjustments for 2023 in mid-October, it could be over 9 percent.
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The post-COVID labor market recovery is like this summer’s weather: SCORCHING.
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Whether or not NBER officially makes the recession call, it’s becoming obvious that a slowdown has begun.
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As the Fed prepares for its two-day policy meeting on July 26 and July 27, there may be a few breaks in the cloudy economic picture for our central bankers.
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If you feel like the number of sketchy emails, texts and voicemails has been increasing lately, you are right: the number of financial fraud, identity theft, and other reports to the FTC has been soaring.
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Despite the hand wringing over a coming recession and sentiment levels dropping to all-time lows, the June employment report showed that the U.S. economy is alive and well.
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