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By the time Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning hit theaters last May, the marketing narrative had become as famous as the franchise itself....
Measuring state-level prices with adequate precision requires a lot of data collection, and there’s always a long lag between the time period measured and...
Every time the government releases major revisions to employment data, a familiar chorus emerges: claims that something must be wrong, that statistics are being...
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has suggested shifting the Federal Reserve from a fixed two-percent inflation target to a broader range. The change may...
Americans aren’t happy with their economy. In October, Pew Research reported that “26 percent now say economic conditions are excellent or good, while 74...
One year after fires tore through the Los Angeles region, devastation remains etched into the landscape, not only in the thousands of empty lots,...
Inflation cooled more than expected in January, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported on Friday. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.2 percent...
In January 2026 the AIER Everyday Price Index (EPI) rose 0.33 percent to 298.0, starting the year with its largest increase since June 2025....
Sports betting has become an epidemic, especially among young men. The Guardian recently aggregated some alarming statistics about its prevalence. The story notes: Somewhere...
“Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” The line from Forrest Gump is meant to capture uncertainty...
The new year brought new developments in the world of financial services: specifically, the role of artificial intelligence (AI). In January, JPMorgan Chase announced...
In 1988, when Robert Lawson was a first-year economics graduate student at Florida State University, he was surprised one day to look up and...
Social Security is drifting toward a cliff, and Congress keeps pretending the shortfall will fix itself. It won’t. Absent reform, benefits will be cut...