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What’s included in the Consumer Price Index and what isn’t?
WEBNov 22, 2021 · The PCE includes all goods and services that Americans buy and pay for. In contrast to the CPI, the PCE takes into account spending from governments and employers. The Federal Reserve uses the PCE ...
New rule gives patients access to all of their medical records and ...
WEBApr 5, 2021 · Many patient records are already electronic, but it can be a hassle to get them. The new rule opens the door to major changes in access to health information. The rule makes it illegal for health ...
Money and millennials: The cost of living in 2022 vs. 1972
WEBAug 17, 2022 · The median price of a home in the second quarter of 1972 was just $26,800, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, amounting to roughly $189,500 in current dollars. Since then, home prices have ...
The Enron scandal: 20 years later, what’s changed?
WEBSep 23, 2021 · Get the Podcast. It was 20 years ago next month that energy giant Enron — then the seventh-largest company in the U.S. — crumbled, resulting in historic layoffs and ravaging retirement savings ...
How much control do presidents really have over the economy?
WEBFeb 5, 2021 · President Joe Biden is set to give a speech on the economy Friday. We already know a good amount about what he wants to do, from the campaign and from his proposed $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief ...
How much is a human life worth? - Marketplace
WEBApr 23, 2020 · But the messy mix of balancing human costs with economic costs did not start and end with the coronavirus crisis. Statistician and health economist Howard Steven Friedman told “Marketplace ...
Why your paycheck comes early at some financial ... - Marketplace
WEBJul 1, 2022 · So when your paycheck is deposited before payday, banks and credit unions are advancing the funds to you, and they expect to be reimbursed at the 8:30 a.m. settlement time. Herd said he doesn’t ...
IRS tells payment apps to report business transactions over $600
WEBJan 7, 2022 · New year, new tax laws. Starting in 2022, mobile payment apps like Venmo, PayPal, Cash App and Zelle are required to report business transactions totaling more than $600 per year to the IRS ...
Are food and energy prices included in inflation rates? - Marketplace
WEBMar 18, 2021 · Both measures include health care, food and energy, but core inflation is helpful to economists, too, in that it gives a better sense of inflation’s overall trend. Core inflation strips out only ...