Under the Americans With Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA), employers have a viable defense to an Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) “regarded as” claim if the impairment in question was ...

The phrase “transitory inflation” has dominated official and public conversation about price trends in the U.S. economy over the past several years. It has become, in effect, a meme – i.e., “an idea ...

The Federal Reserve left its key interest rate unchanged while penciling in a half-percentage-point in rate cuts later this year. The S&P 500 rallied as Chairman Jerome Powell downplayed the inflation ...

On the narrow point, Krugman may be correct. As the inflation rate has declined, we have not seen a spike in unemployment despite there often being an inverse relationship between the two in the short ...

I’m tired of hearing that the current spike in inflation is “transitory” — not because I doubt the underlying economics of the claim, but because the ever-more-common usage is devaluing a precious ...

It may be time for the Federal Reserve to revive the word "transitory" after all. While the first dictionary definition of "transitory," is "of brief duration," additional definitions describe ...

I think that if we do see a large universal tariff hike, it would qualify as 'transitory inflation.' I follow a strict definition of relative price shifts: the overall price level/aggregate inflation ...

As prices continue to increase, the word “inflation” is making news headlines, but what does it mean? Inflation, by definition, means that money buys less than it did previously. When inflation occurs ...

Last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that inflation—as measured by the annual change in the Consumer Price Index—fell to 3 percent in June, down from a high of 9 percent last summer. The ...