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Baltimore Is the City With the Highest Inflation Problem – WalletHub Study

April 10, 2025 Press Release

With the year-over-year inflation rate at 2.4% in March, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its updated report on the

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Harris campaign may benefit from the Fed’s large rate cut, analysts say

September 23, 2024September 23, 2024 Bryan Renbaum

The campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris stands to benefit from the Federal Reserve Board’s recent decision to slash it’s benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point, analysts said.

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Missing the Point – The Economics and Politics of Inflation

August 5, 2024 Les Cohen

The same voters who will blame the Democrats for the recession we may be about to have, but which the FED has caused… Vice President Harris should talk to voters about changing the way government manages the economy.

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Missing the Point – The Fed ‘Committee’ we need to do something about

December 14, 2022December 14, 2022 Les Cohen

Increasing interest rates is making matters worse and hurting the real families who, collectively, comprise the economy we’re always talking about. What can we do about it? Congress needs to modify the language of the Fed’s independent agency status and rescind the Fed’s authority to make economic policy outside of representative government. Take the Fed out of business of fighting inflation.

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Who Do You Blame for the Poor Economy?

September 28, 2022September 30, 2022 Bryan Renbaum

Presidents tend to get both the credit and the blame for a wide range of issues that are largely beyond their control such as the employment rate and wage and price variations. But what about Congress? Or what about that lesser known entity, the Federal Reserve?

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Still Missing the Point: The Fed fights inflation

September 24, 2022November 3, 2022 Les Cohen

My argument was that inflation in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a composite of what’s happening in various inter-related, but still very different markets for products and services in various locales around the country.

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The Chicken, the Price of Eggs and the Chairman of the Fed: Using Monetary Policy to Curb Inflation

May 4, 2022November 3, 2022 Les Cohen

The prices of consumer products have gone up, some more so than others, because of issues in their respective submarkets. In a world of microeconomics, national, indiscriminate, macroeconomic monetary policy is a gross instrument with limited power. It’s the dumb bomb when what we need are precisely targeted policies capable of dealing delicately, but nonetheless effectively with highly variable, complex market relationships with minimum side effects.