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Economy
Is Accelerating Inflation Just around the Corner?
Households say yes (preliminary), while Wall Street economists says no: Figure 1: Year-on-Year CPI inflation (bold black), U.Michigan February survey…
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Economy
0.68%: Truflation Y/Y CPI Inflation Rate as of 8 February 2026
The Cleveland Fed nowcast for February 2026 as of today is 2.34%. Figure 1: Year-on-Year headline CPI inflation (bold blue),…
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Economy
What Could Go Wrong? The AI Asset Price and Investment Boom
Last semester, teaching the Financial System, I laid out three things that worried me: Crypto & stablecoins, private credit, and…
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Real Estate
A Fast-Growing Renter Demographic is Creating Better Cash Flow Opportunities For Investors
In This Article Solo living is no longer a state enforced on a spouse when their other half passes away,…
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Lifestyle
Adult Diapers, a Love Story
By the wonderful illustrator and writer Hallie Bateman based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her work has been published by The New…
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Economy
The Layoff Announcement-Labor Force Ratio and Recessions, 1989-2025
Using Challenger, Gray, Christmas data at quarterly frequency, normalized by civilian labor force. Figure 1: Challenger layoff announcements to civilian…
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Economy
Nowcasting January Private NFP | Econbrowser
BLS will release (w/delay) on Wednesday. Until then, we have ADP (which underwent benchmarking). Using ADP data (2022M01-2025M12) to extrapolate…
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Economy
USDA Forecasts Near Constant Farm Cash Income…As Long as We Dole Out $44.3 Billion
From USDA on Thursday: Overall, farm cash receipts are forecast to decrease by $14.2 billion (2.7 percent) from 2025 to…
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Real Estate
The 7 Places Self-Managing Landlords Lose Money Without Realizing It
In This Article This article is presented by RentRedi. When I bought my first rental, I was determined to self-manage. Not…
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Lifestyle
Have a Loving Weekend. | Cup of Jo
What are your plans for this weekend? We will be watching the Super Bowl with our neighbors, and the boys…
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