Economists worry that if we expect more inflation we’ll get more inflation.
Friday’s personal consumption expenditure data drop will give policymakers a broader picture of what’s happening with inflation.
Monetary policy doesn’t just happen by magic. Instead, Fed employees in New York are carrying it out through open market operations.
For some investors, they bet on a vehicle known as "Federal Funds futures" to hedge. For others, it's just that — a bet.
And that will impact businesses, the housing market and consumers.
Carola Binder, an economist at the University of Texas at Austin, explains why tariffs might cause prices to rise, but they doesn’t necessarily mean the Fed will get involved right off the bat.
A lot has happened in monetary policy since the last time the Federal Reserve updated its long-term strategy goals.
It was the lead-up to the 1972 presidential election. An era of “stagflation” was ahead. And President Richard Nixon had a plan.
Despite high prices, “wages are growing faster than inflation,” and families’ purchasing power is growing, he says.
Scanlon explains her philosophy of economic education in this excerpt from her book, “In This Economy? How Money & Markets Really Work.”
