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Consumer price index
Everything is fine ... except your paycheck.
Making public colleges and universities free only perpetuates the problem and relieves the pressure to make necessary reforms. It's a facile answer to a complex question.
As a high level organization that manipulates monetary apparatuses, the Fed merely feigns concern about inflation as a theoretical risk.
If America is to shed the title of "Land of Inequality," this is how it is going to happen: by more people becoming aware of how the Fed's monetary policy affects them and demanding that it change.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Good news, consumers: Everything's on sale! The bad news: Low, low prices aren't always such a great thing.
It's a pity more of those "inflationistas," who cry wolf at the slightest hint of rising prices, haven't visited the FDR Memorial where some of his most telling words are engraved, such as: "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
For the first time in decades, young Americans are now questioning whether obtaining more postsecondary education is worth the time and expense.
