Economics

How Does Raising Minimum Wage Affect 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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Is China GDP Falling?

According to the Chinese Communist Party’s narrative, “the east is rising, the west is declining” (CCP). Many people outside of China take China’s “inevitable rise” for granted. On its road to becoming a “modern socialist country” by 2035, and affluent, powerful, and dominant by 2049, the People’s Republic’s centennial, China wants to gloat about its

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