Inflation Rate

How Tax Credits Ended Up Costing Home Buyers

SmartMoney | JACK HOUGH | Posted 07.10.2011

Read More: Inflation Rate, Home Buyers, Housing Prices, Zillow, Congress, President Obama, Homeowners, Tax Credit, Home Value, Business News

The government's recent $8,000 cash incentive for first-time home buyers has proved even more costly for recipients than for taxpayers, according to d...

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Hey Ben, Time for an Optometrist

Dan Dorfman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Inflation Rate 2010, Inflation Rate, Inflation, Consumer Price Index, Consumer Price Index 2010, Cpi, Business News
Dan Dorfman

The government's inflation statistics are by no means alarming. The CPI in October posted an 0.2% reading, or up 1.2% year over year. Still, there's no escaping the fact that practically everybody is inundating us with higher prices.

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Happiness Index: Nebraska Ranked First, Florida Last In Economic Happiness

Mainstreet | MainStreet.Com Staff Writers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Inflation Rate, Unemployment, Employment, Foreclosure, Florida, Misery Index, Non-Mortgage Debt, Income, Happiness, Business News

The newest installment of the Happiness Index has arrived and residents of the midwest will be happy to learn that their strangle-hold on the top spot...

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Our Love, Hate Relation to Inflation

Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil Prices, Energy, Gas Prices, Inflation Rate, High Food Prices, Inflation, Business News
Max Fraad Wolff

Housing prices went nuts from 1996-2007, and there virtually no complaints. So why is speculation influenced inflation in food and energy prices the work of Satan?

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Inflation Is At Highest Rate In 17 Years

AP | Martin Crutsinger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Inflation Rate, High Inflation, Consumer Prices, Economy Slowdown, Inflation, U.S Economy, Business News

Higher costs for energy and food last year pushed inflation up by the largest amount in 17 years, even though prices generally remained tame outside o...

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Stock Prices Drop For Second Straight Day

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Inflation Rate, Consumer Prices, Dow Jones, Wall Street, Inflation, Nasdaq, Intel, Stocks, Standard & Poor, Business News

The Dow Jones industrial average has dropped 52.10 to 12,546.08 in the opening minutes of trading today, after falling 277.04 yesterday. The losses fo...

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