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New York Times economist Paul Krugman appears to have finally admitted defeat on the issue of inflation, adding another notch to his belt of being consistently wrong on economic issues.

For the U.S. in particular, increased productivity and the drop in inflation so far "might even require no increase in unemployment" for a return to the Federal Reserve's 2% target, former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and former International Monetary Fund Chief Economist Olivier Blanchard wrote in a new paper published Thursday by the Peterson Institute for International Economics, where Blanchard serves as a senior fellow. For other countries whose job markets are adju...

WASHINGTON: Developed economies have so far skirted a damaging wage price spiral from the breakout of inflation that followed the pandemic, two top economists have concluded, with a relatively painless landing from the episode possible in some countries but not yet assured. For the US in particular, increa

In February, the US government paid 63% of Americans' personal income tax on interest alone on our US debt. Personal income tax is half of what the government takes in. That isn't good. About 50 percent of federal revenue comes from individual income taxes, 7 percent from corporate income

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During the PM’s post-Cabinet press conference yesterday, Christopher Luxon claimed that renters will be feeling “grateful” for the way the government is putting “downward pressure“ on rents. Really. Allegedly, the coalition government is ...

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

Inflation is over... Or is it? The pandemic shock has passed, but long-term trends are emerging, which could create much more dangerous forms of structural inflation.

William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades." Many observers…