LegalShield senior vice president of consumer analytics Matt Layton said, “The picture isn't as rosy as what the macro-level indicators would lead us to believe.”
This week we take a not-so-random walk through the data, trying to simplify what is actually a fairly complex subject. I think it is quite fun, but also important. Let's dive in.
Professor Webster from Lubin School of Business argues that the relationship between the Fed and the U.S. government is more like a captive’s relationship with his captor.
818,000 jobs were wiped out in the 12 months through March 2024 (or 68,000 per month), resulting in the biggest downward adjustment since the global financial crisis.
Every month, the government reports good news. Everybody celebrates. Markets move. Later, the government quietly revises everything downward and reports that the good news was bad news.
Nebraska politicians beat a hasty retreat this week after attempting a brazen tax grab that would have reimposed sales taxes on purchases of gold and silver in the Cornhusker State.
With Social Security failing to keep up with real inflation due to government accounting, the amount of retirement funds it provides shrinks each year.
