The Fed will increase the federal funds rate to 4.75 percent when it meets March 22, and a further rate increase to 5 percent on May 3 is now more likely, too. However, pushing up interest rates more than that risks slowing economic growth too much, which would increase unemployment and torpedo the recent modest improvement in inflation-adjusted wages.
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Six years ago it was up to about 1.20 a litre, then down to below 1, ... But that was over a period of six years. Think about what's happened to the prices of houses and cars and most goods in that period -- they've gone up 2-3 per cent a year. In real, inflation-adjusted terms, we've seen oil come down.
It's the only inflation-adjusted income source most older Americans have,
The inflation-adjusted number, the finite supply of oil, and the growing demand for oil from one-third of the world's population all point to higher prices.
These losses may reflect the fact that consumers facing higher energy prices and falling real inflation-adjusted wages are cutting back on discretionary spending.
Still, the doubling over a decade of total spending by U.S. public and private research sponsors in real, inflation-adjusted terms should be reassuring to those who fear that financial sponsorship for research is not paralleling scientific opportunity, ... It is also reassuring that spending on health and biomedical science research by companies and government is not following reductions in research and development in other industries or reduced support for other areas of science.
None of us like to raise tuition rates. But public funding on a per-student, inflation-adjusted basis has continually declined over the past 15 years.