Tag: Inflation

Beltway Confidential

The legacy media keep parroting a socialist conspiracy theory

Brad Polumbo · June 3, 2023 6:58 am

President Joe Biden falsely claimed Friday that inflation has fallen for 10 straight months, just days after the Bureau of Economic Analysis announced that Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge rose in April.

Joe Biden’s bullish inflation claims come days after surprise uptick

Christian Datoc · June 3, 2023 12:00 am

Indiaâs Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Biden,Â June 2023.

Mortgage rates spike amid debt ceiling drama and inflation

Emma Loop · June 2, 2023 2:28 am

Joe Biden’s bullish inflation claims come days after surprise uptick

Joe Biden’s bullish inflation claims come days after surprise uptick

Christian Datoc · June 2, 2023 12:00 am

Washington Secrets

Families say they need three times poverty rate to ‘get by,’ $85,000

Paul Bedard · May 31, 2023 2:06 pm

President Joe Biden talks with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) in Washington, March 17, 2023. There are stark differences in how President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy want to shore up the government's finances.

Beltway Confidential

Fed’s favored inflation measure jumps (again), pressuring Biden to pass GOP debt ceiling bill

Tiana Lowe Doescher · May 26, 2023 2:52 pm

A shopper peruses cheese offerings at a Target store Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023.

Inflation rose to 4.4% in April, according to key gauge watched by Fed

Zach Halaschak · May 26, 2023 12:32 pm

Beltway Confidential

The ‘greedflation’ narrative is still wrong

Jack Elbaum · May 25, 2023 3:19 pm

Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2023, at the National Harbor, in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on Thursday, March 2, 2023.

Fact check: Does immigration increase housing costs?

Sarah Bedford · May 24, 2023 7:00 am

Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference at the Federal Reserve, Wednesday, May 4, 2022, in Washington. The Federal Reserve intensified its drive to curb the worst inflation in 40 years by raising its benchmark short-term interest rate by a sizable half-percentage point.

Fed officials hint that rate hikes might not be over

Zach Halaschak · May 22, 2023 7:14 pm

John Williams, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, is interviewed by The Associated Press in Washington, Friday, Oct. 30, 2015. Williams cautioned that the Fed has yet to decide when to raise interest rates even though it issued a statement this week that said a rate hike was possible in December.

Very low interest rates may return, Fed analysis finds, with major ramifications

Zach Halaschak · May 19, 2023 4:10 pm

A shopper peruses cheese offerings at a Target store Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023.

Americans’ inflation pain hits a new high

Washington Examiner · May 19, 2023 2:35 pm