PODCAST: What’s so bad about low inflation?
Why are investors suddenly fleeing from stocks?
Right now our inflation rate is around 1 percent. But some at the Fed say that’s way too low. The hope is to see inflation go up. But why on earth would we want to increase inflation?
When it comes to wellbeing, Costa Rica tops the list of countries in Latin America. That’s according to new data from the Social Progress Imperative, an organization which aims to understand how countries are performing on a variety of measures including health, education, technology, and opportunity.
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