Anyone who has taken an economics class knows the importance of where the demand and supply curve intersect, but right now, for many common items, that point is nowhere close to existence. Mostly due ...

Buyers and sellers meet and at the right price all products are sold Three little words. Often that is all it takes to make one’s heart beat faster. “Liberty, equality, fraternity” captured the French ...

Simulations using a Phillips curve-type relationship provide insights into the importance of demand versus supply for inflation over different periods. The decade of low inflation after the Great ...

What are the contributions of demand and supply factors to inflation? To address this question, we follow Shapiro (2022) and construct quarterly demand-driven and supply-driven inflation series for 32 ...

Inflation has remained at levels well above the Federal Reserve’s inflation goal of 2% for over a year. Separating the underlying data from the personal consumption expenditures price index into ...

Demand for new houses over the past 50 years has generally shifted outward with rising incomes and an increasing population, though it has shifted inward during periods of recession. Supply for new ...