inflation

WASHINGTON (TNS) — President Joe Biden promised to lower housing costs during his State of the Union address earlier this spring. To date, his plan ha...

If you want inflation to drop, pay attention to the national debt. Interest payments on the debt recently surpassed spending on defense and Medicare, ...

This holiday season, working families across America are struggling through the worst bout of inflation in decades. A typical household has lost more ...

It’s happened to all of us: The holidays are here before you know it, and you’re scrambling for that last-minute gift. Maybe you procrastinated, but a...

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli reported that most local taxing bodies saw higher sales tax receipts in October than they did in Oct. 2021. Cattaraugus...

President Joe Biden is considering a windfall tax on oil and gas profits, presumably to fight inflation. It’s like pouring gasoline on a fire to extin...

September sales tax receipts were mixed in the area, the state’s fiscal watchdog reported. Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, in his monthly report on local sa...

BUFFALO — Candidates in the new 23rd Congressional District squared off for their only head-to-head meeting Tuesday night in a live televised debate o...

The S&P 500 is down more than 5% since Joe Biden’s inauguration, and the Dow Jones Industrial more than 4%. The Federal Reserve is ratcheting up inter...

WASHINGTON — Millions of Social Security recipients will get an 8.7% boost in their benefits in 2023, a historic increase but a gain that will be eate...

Joe Biden’s highly touted political comeback is failing to live up to the hype. He’s up from his midsummer trough of an approval rating that averaged ...

The goal of the latest interest rate hike from the Federal Reserve? To avoid a deep recession “by acting with resolve now,” according to Fed Chairman ...

Max Della Pia, the Democratic candidate in the special election in the 23rd Congressional District, and his Republican opponent Joe Sempolinski agree ...

Meanwhile, back at the ranch ... To readers of a certain age who grew up watching cowboy movies on TV, that timeless phrase signals a major plot devel...

The so-called Inflation Reduction Act is one of the greatest examples of deceptive marketing around today. Not only will the legislation fail to reduc...

Here’s the best possible spin on the staggering $369 billion in energy and climate handouts included in the Inflation “Reduction” Act: It’s not as bad...

An odd atmosphere has descended on Washington, D.C. At the precise moment the government announced that the economy shrank for the second consecutive ...

Congress has never cared much about truth-in-labeling, but even by its standards, “The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022” is laughably absurd. The deal ...