Eventually, economic expansion can get out of hand. Rising wages lead to inflation andasset bubblesbegin to form. High inflation and therisk of widespread defaultswhen debt bubbles burst can badly damage the economy. This risk, in turn, leads governments (or their central banks) to reverse cour...
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Inflation expectations are the rate at which the public (consumers, businesses, and investors) expect prices to rise in the future. This is important since central bankers generally argue, as Bernanke put it in a 2022 speech, that "inflation expectations… are an important determinant of realized...
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Why Those Pay Hikes Are Not Going Very Far ; Wages Are Up from a Year Ago. Inflation Is Creeping Up, Too
Payroll taxes are withheld from an employee’s paycheck by an employer, who remits the amount to the federal government to fund Medicare and Social Security programs. In 2024, employees will pay 1.45% into Medicare on all wages and 6.2% into Social Security on the first $168,600 earned, in...
Some may think the ubiquity of Chinese products is due to the abundance of cheap Chinese labor that brings down theproduction costs, but there is much more to it than that. In addition to its low labor costs, China has become known as “the world’s factory” because of its low wages,...
Total income is the entirety of gross wages that an individual earns. This is sometimes adjusted to reflect factors that alter that total. For example, products returned by a customer would reduce a sole proprietor’s totalincome. Taxesare eliminated from disposable income because they are mandator...