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econbrowser.com | ||
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www.pew.org
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| | | | | When the federal government imposes tariffs on imports, the effects often ripple far beyond cargo ships and customs offices. Tariffs have the potential to significantly influence state budgets by increasing uncertainty in economic forecasts, raising the costs of public projects, and disrupting revenue streams. | |
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www.frbsf.org
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| | | | | How much persistent versus transitory forces contribute to inflation influences the Federal Reserve's ability to achieve its goal of 2% average inflation over time. If elevated inflation is driven mainly by persistent shocks, then a stronger and longer-lasting policy response is likely to be needed to bring inflation back down. Recent data show that consecutive changes in monthly inflation rates have tended to move increasingly in the same direction. This pattern suggests that the contribution of persistent shocks to inflation has been rising since mid-2019. | |
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fred.stlouisfed.org
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| | | | | View data of the CPI, or an inflation measure derived from tracking the changes in the weighted-average price of a basket of common goods and services. | |
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www.moneyandbanking.com
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| | | "Headline" inflation is making painful headlines again. In October, consumer prices rose by 6.2 percent from a year ago-the most rapid gain in at least three decades. Measures of trend inflation also are showing unsettling increases, with the trimmed mean CPI up by 4%. And there are reasons to believe that inflation will stay well above policymakers' 2% target for an extended period. In this post, we briefly summarize how we got here and argue that the Federal Reserve needs to change course now. In our v... | ||
