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[TRENDING NEWS] The Fed’s preferred measure of inflation surged again in October amid rising food and energy prices.

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Author: BY MADELEINE NGO AND ANA SWANSON - Publish Date: November 24, 2021 at 11:35PM Prices climbed by 5 percent in the 12 months through October, according to Personal Consumption Expenditures price index data released Wednesday.

[TRENDING NEWS] The Congressional Black Caucus Was Key to the Infrastructure Vote

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Author: BY JONATHAN WEISMAN AND CARL HULSE - Publish Date: November 6, 2021 at 11:45PM Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent the chairwoman of the caucus, Representative Joyce Beatty of Ohio, to announce a key deal, understanding that the lawmaker had more influence at that point than she did.

[TRENDING NEWS] The Congressional Black Caucus Was Key to the Infrastructure Vote

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Author: BY JONATHAN WEISMAN AND CARL HULSE - Publish Date: November 6, 2021 at 11:45PM Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent the chairwoman of the caucus, Representative Joyce Beatty of Ohio, to announce a key deal, understanding that the lawmaker had more influence at that point than she did.

[TRENDING NEWS] A regional Fed analysis suggests Biden’s stimulus is temporarily stoking inflation.

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Author: BY JEANNA SMIALEK - Publish Date: October 19, 2021 at 12:01AM The American Rescue Plan could be pushing inflation up slightly and temporarily, a Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco analysis said.

[TRENDING NEWS] A regional Fed analysis suggests Biden’s stimulus is temporarily stoking inflation.

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Author: BY JEANNA SMIALEK - Publish Date: October 19, 2021 at 12:01AM The American Rescue Plan could be pushing inflation up slightly and temporarily, a Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco analysis said.

[TRENDING NEWS] Risk of high inflation dogs central bankers as consumer expectations climb.

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Author: BY JEANNA SMIALEK - Publish Date: October 12, 2021 at 11:38PM A survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shows inflation expectations are the highest since 2013, adding pressure for Federal Reserve officials.

[TRENDING NEWS] Man Who Faked Suicide to Avoid Covid-19 Fraud Charges Is Sentenced

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Author: BY MICHAEL LEVENSON - Publish Date: October 10, 2021 at 05:39AM Prosecutors said David A. Staveley, who cut off his electronic monitoring bracelet and left suicide notes with friends and relatives, was sentenced to 56 months in prison.

[TRENDING NEWS] Wonking Out: This Might Be China’s ‘Babaru’ Moment

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Author: BY PAUL KRUGMAN - Publish Date: September 25, 2021 at 01:05AM Evergrande may not be another Lehman, but so what?

[TRENDING NEWS] Fed’s Williams hints that bond-buying taper could start even if job gains slow.

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Author: BY JEANNA SMIALEK - Publish Date: September 9, 2021 at 03:03AM The president of the powerful New York Fed said that it was the level of the job market, not the pace of progress, that mattered.

[TRENDING NEWS] Unemployment Benefits Expire for Millions Without Pushback from Biden

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Author: BY JIM TANKERSLEY AND BEN CASSELMAN - Publish Date: September 7, 2021 at 01:03AM The president has encouraged some states to continue helping the long-term unemployed, but administration officials say it was time for enhanced federal aid to end.

[TRENDING NEWS] The White House projects that inflation and economic growth will rise this year.

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Author: BY JIM TANKERSLEY - Publish Date: August 28, 2021 at 12:46AM The Biden administration revised its earlier forecasts to match the continued stimulus-fueled recovery from the recession.

[TRENDING NEWS] President Biden encourages some states to further extend unemployment benefits.

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Author: BY JIM TANKERSLEY - Publish Date: August 19, 2021 at 11:41PM His administration suggested that some states should use relief funds to extend weekly payments for the long-term unemployed.

[TRENDING NEWS] Wonking Out: Keynesian Republicans, Supply-Side Democrats?

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Author: BY PAUL KRUGMAN - Publish Date: July 31, 2021 at 01:09AM A weird, though not symmetric, role reversal on economic rhetoric.

[TRENDING NEWS] Monthly Payments to Families With Children to Begin

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Author: BY JASON DEPARLE - Publish Date: July 13, 2021 at 01:30AM The Biden administration will send up to $300 per child a month to most American families thanks to a temporary increase in the child tax credit that advocates hope to extend.

[TRENDING NEWS] Judges Halt Race and Gender Priority for Restaurant Relief Grants

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Author: BY STACY COWLEY - Publish Date: June 15, 2021 at 01:41AM Approvals for thousands of Restaurant Revitalization Fund applicants were rescinded after court orders struck down a policy that favored historically underserved groups.

[TRENDING NEWS] Some Venue Owners Get a Federal Lifeline. Others Are Told They’re Dead.

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Author: BY BEN SISARIO, STACY COWLEY AND JULIA JACOBS - Publish Date: June 3, 2021 at 02:57AM The first applications for the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program, offering $16 billion in federal aid, were approved.

[TRENDING NEWS] Pandemic Inspector General Warns of Oversight Breakdown

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Author: BY ALAN RAPPEPORT - Publish Date: May 1, 2021 at 11:12AM An internal dispute at the Treasury Department shows the challenge of tracking trillions of dollars of economic relief money.

[TRENDING NEWS] Fed Chief Says U.S. Economy Is at an ‘Inflection Point’ as Risks Remain

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Author: BY DEBORAH B. SOLOMON - Publish Date: April 12, 2021 at 07:35AM “It’s going to be smart if people can continue to socially distance and wear masks,” Jerome Powell said on “60 Minutes.”

[TRENDING NEWS] Biden Assails Republicans Over Voting Rights and Defends Record on Border

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Author: BY MICHAEL D. SHEAR AND ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS - Publish Date: March 26, 2021 at 06:58AM At his first full-scale news conference as president, Mr. Biden doubled the administration’s goal for vaccinations in the first 100 days and said he expected to run for re-election in 2024.

[TRENDING NEWS] House Votes to Avert Deep Medicare Cuts to Pay for $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Plan

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Author: BY EMILY COCHRANE AND MARGOT SANGER-KATZ - Publish Date: March 20, 2021 at 06:39AM The measure is likely to become the subject of negotiations later in the year over government spending and debt.