Economics

Do Minimum Wage Increases Cause Inflation?

As inflation reaches historic highs, lawmakers and analysts are debating the causes, which include pandemic-related shocks as well as government-imposed limitations and swings in consumer demand. One New York Times writer remarked this week on Twitter that recent media headlines about inflation are “all hype.” “Policies like the $15 minimum wage” are blamed by “wealthy

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Why Is China GDP So High?

Prior to 1979, China had a centrally planned, or command, economy under Chairman Mao Zedong’s direction. The state directed and controlled a substantial portion of the country’s economic output, setting production objectives, controlling prices, and allocating resources across the sector. All of China’s individual household farms were collectivized into big communes in the 1950s. During

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What Is GDP In Spanish?

This article is part of Statistics for Beginners, a section of Statistics Described where statistical indicators and ideas are explained in a straightforward manner to make the world of statistics a little easier for pupils, students, and anybody else interested in statistics. The most generally used measure of an economy’s size is gross domestic product

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