Purchasing power refers to the amount of goods and services a person or entity can buy with a given amount of money. It ...

On Sunday, in a post on X, The Kobeissi Letter, said “basic necessities have never been more unaffordable,” while noting the steep increases in core expenses since February 2020, with grocery prices ...

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Mike Maharrey argues that decades of artificially low interest rates and nearly $9 trillion in quantitative easing, combined ...

Rising costs and modest COLAs are squeezing retirees as Social Security struggles to keep up with long-term inflation ...

Investor jitters over a weakening U.S. dollar, rising government debt and central bank monetary policy have fuelled ...

One of the favorite charts used to make the “debasement” case is the classic graph showing that the U.S. dollar has lost 90% of its purchasing power since 1966. Debasement implies a structural ...