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President Donald Trump centered his 2024 election campaign on bringing down prices after a prolonged period of inflation. In particular, Trump called for greater domestic drilling, even as the Biden Administration accelerated domestic energy independence. Now that Trump is in office, energy...

Investing in real estate is often seen as a surefire way of hedging against inflation and acquiring an asset that will most likely appreciate in value over the long run. That’s certainly been true for the past 10 years. From the first quarter of 2013 to the second quarter of 2022, house...

Manufacturing activity declined across Texas in March as the coronavirus caused some plants to shut down and others to furlough thousands of workers. According to a monthly survey of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (FRBD), general business activity for manufacturing in Texas declined to -70 in...

In her remarks last week before the Senate Banking Committee Dr. Janet Yellen, nominated to replace Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke, endorsed the continuation of the Quantitative Easing III program. Designed to keep interest rates low, Quantitative Easing III entails the Federal Reserve...

President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Richard Fisher spoke with Bloomberg TV's Tom Keene and Sara Eisen Wednesday. In the interview, he said, “we're at the risk of overburdening the central banks [and] we keep applying what I call monetary Ritalin to the system. We all know there's a risk...