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Top earners in the U.S. make six figures or more per year. Other measures of affluence aren't directly related to income.

The M1 money supply is the most liquid version of the money supply and tells a story about what a consumer can spend. Here's what you need to know.

Can simply exceeding a critical tax-to-GDP threshold bring about an accelerated trajectory of economic growth and development in a country? We conduct new event studies and exploit a richer dataset to ...

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In addition to working papers, the NBER disseminates affiliates’ latest findings through a range of free periodicals — the NBER Reporter, the NBER Digest, the Bulletin on Health, and the Bulletin on ...

The obsession with economic output as a measure of human development puts sustainability on the back burner. Researchers can ...

There are certain instances across history when the central feature of investor behavior is an “increasingly urgent impulse ...

SYDNEY—Inflation pressures are once again building in Australia, with a monthly reading of price pressures hitting its highest level in just over a year in August. The monthly consumer-price index ...

A recent study explored the income levels required to be considered middle class in each state, including Oregon. Oregon's cost of living is 12% higher than the national average, making it the eighth ...