Big Pharma Raises Prices 10% Even As It Promises To Cut Nation's Drug Costs
Even as drug makers promise to support Washington's health care overhaul by shaving $8 billion a year off the nation's drug costs after the legislatio...
Even as drug makers promise to support Washington's health care overhaul by shaving $8 billion a year off the nation's drug costs after the legislatio...
nytimes.com | IAN URBINA | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business
Over the past two years, government officials and experts have seen an increasing number of children leave home for life on the streets, including man...
Posted 10.13.2009 | Denver
As the consumer pricing index continues to fall, the State of Colorado will become the first state since 1938 to lower it's minimum wage. From the ...
Dean Baker | Posted 09.26.2009 | Business
Someone who had been receiving Social Security in 1996 would be getting about 13 percent less in their monthly check today. Senator Kennedy protected the financial security of millions.
Michael Pento | Posted 09.12.2009 | Business
The data soon to be released by the government will put a dagger through the hearts of those who are predicting a protracted period of deflation.
AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER and MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 05.16.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — So much for fears that flooding the economy with money to fight the financial crisis would ignite inflation. The recession is keepi...
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 11.10.2008 | Business
The current economic crisis means trillions lost on the stock market, personal fortunes are dwindling and financial institutions are crashing to the g...
Posted 07.25.2008 | Business
Reports on inflation showed big price increases at the consumer level and the wholesale level for June, driven by higher energy and food costs. Here ...
Michael Pento | Posted 05.24.2008 | Business
The Consumer Price Index claimed that consumer's energy costs were unchanged while the actual price of crude oil rose 12.5% and gas prices rose 11% -- that's some adjustment!
Eben Esterhuizen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
China has been a convenient scapegoat for politicians lately, and now China, with its crawling peg to the weak dollar, is being blamed for exporting inflation. Is this political spin, or is there a real danger of importing higher inflation from China?
L.A. Observed | Marc Lacter | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
When the subject of interest rates and inflation creeps up - as it has with today's higher-than-expected consumer price index numbers - Bill Gross can...
AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Consumer inflation surged by the largest amount in more than two years in November, led by gasoline prices. The cost of clothing, airline tickets and ...
New York Times | DUFF WILSON | Posted 11.15.2009 | Business