November 26, 2012
Associated PressIf you get buy all 364 items repeated throughout "The Twelve Days of Christmas" carol, you'll pay 6.1 percent more this year,
according to the so-called Christmas Price Index that PNC Wealth Management updates annually.
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October 1, 2012
J.K. WallFederal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told a local lunch crowd that he expects the economy to keep growing, but he said the
growth is so slow that it could create a "permanent group" of underemployed Americans.
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September 16, 2012
Associated PressThe Federal Reserve this week took steps to boost economic growth. But those stimulus measures are also pushing oil prices
up. If gas prices follow, consumers will have less money to spend elsewhere.
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November 10, 2011
Bloomberg NewsThe cost of a Thanksgiving dinner in the U.S. will jump 13 percent this year, the biggest gain in two decades, as prices rose
for everything from turkey to green peas to milk, the American Farm Bureau Federation said.
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July 29, 2011
Associated PressThe economy expanded at a meager 1.3-percent annual rate in the spring after scarcely growing at all in the first three months
of the year, the Commerce Department said Friday. The combined growth for the first six months of the year was the weakest
since the recession ended two years ago.
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December 18, 2010
Mike HicksAll economists know that, at its core, inflation is caused solely by too much money chasing too few goods.
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November 29, 2010
Associated PressTrying to buy the items repeated in the song's verses would cost $96,824—10.8 percent more than last year due to rising gold
prices and higher pay for nine dancing ladies.
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May 15, 2010
Scott OlsonRecession's over. Time for law firms to get cracking on raising rates again. As was the case before the recession, the
increases are outstripping inflation.
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March 6, 2010
Mike HicksInflation causes lenders to raise interest rates. Businesses slow their borrowing, produce less and require fewer workers.
Within a year or so, inflation becomes everyoneâ??s problem.
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February 25, 2010
Associated PressNew claims for unemployment benefits jumped unexpectedly last week, mostly because state agencies processed a backlog of
claims caused by snowstorms the previous week.
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November 21, 2009
Peter SchnitzlerFaced with the potential for another bout with stagflation, investment managers are scrambling to decide how to face a future
when markets may again be thrown into turmoil by the two-headed monster of frisky price increases and crummy economic conditions.
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November 21, 2009
Peter SchnitzlerIn the 1970s, stagflation—the unprecedented combination of stagnant economic growth and inflation—threatened to
ruin financial institutions. Now some fear it might make a return.
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Saw the Indy Men's Chorus "Music of Gilbert & Sullivan" at the Indiana Historical Society on Sunday evening.
Temporary workers are not "tools" they are people and companies that keep large amounts of temp staff are cheating.
I miss having them around. I hope one of their stores is in the general Meridian/86th Street area. I will make good use of it.
The Fringe! Plus, the simple fact that there are so many local faves in such close proximity to each other.
I remenber, watching the toll road, being built, through South Bend, when I was 10 years old. I believe, back then that it was estimated, that the toll road, would be paid for in 20 years and then it would be free. I am now 71, what happened? Since the power is in the people, by that, I mean that, we the people are in total control of everything. I, suggest that no one ever use the toll road again, let it go broke. We the people can control the price of everything, from groceries to gas, if we would just do it. If we don't pay the asking price, the sellers will lower the price and if we wait awhile, they will lower the price to what we accept as reasonable. I would like to know why a highway like interstate 94, is so well maintained, a much better highway, than the toll road, but has no tolls. I would also like to know why, a sitting governor, with a term limit, maximum of eight years, can lease, public property, for 75 years. Even though I have transponders in both of my trucks and will not be affected by the increase, I have been and will contine to avoid using the toll road. I make many trips from northern Indiana to Chicago, every year, and I prefer the better highway, I94!