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Live to fight another day (This saying comes from an English proverbial rhyme, "He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day") Loose lips sink ships; Look before you leap; Love is blind – The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II, Scene 1 (1591) Love of money is the root of all evil [16] Love makes the world go around
The term "greedflation" was a candidate for word of the year for the Collins English Dictionary in 2023, [3] [4] and was added to Dictionary.com in 2024. [5] [6] Collins Dictionary defines it as either "the use of inflation as an excuse to raise prices to artificially high levels in order to increase corporate profits" or "an increase in the price of goods and services caused by businesses ...
To be sure, headline inflation has come down over the past year. In October, the U.S. consumer price index saw an annual increase of 3.2%, down from its peak 9.1% increase in June 2022.
Everybody has a personal inflation gauge. And it’s not the official inflation rate. This is one reason gasoline prices are so important, even though gas only accounts for about 3% of the typical ...
The cost of low inflation would have been unemployment rates of 14% over the past two years, columnist Michael Hicks writes. Hicks: Everyone hates high inflation. High unemployment would be worse.
A hotter-than-expected inflation print rocked bond markets Wednesday, sending the US 10-year Treasury note yield to 4.56%, the highest level since November. The jump (18 bps) was the biggest in ...
Whip Inflation Now (WIN) was a 1974 attempt to spur a grassroots movement to combat inflation in the US, by encouraging personal savings and disciplined spending habits in combination with public measures, urged by U.S. President Gerald Ford. The campaign was later described as "one of the biggest government public relations blunders ever".
US consumer prices rose 3.2% for the 12 months ending in July, according to the latest Consumer Price Index, which landed Thursday. That compares to 3% in June.