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The U.S. Federal Reserve Bank closely tracks overall inflation, especially core inflation. Core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) is the inflation measure economists prefer to track as it excludes the volatility

As a financial economist, I teach my students about the business case for closing the education opportunity gap and striving for a diverse labor force. In a nutshell, given a

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As we reflect upon the last 30 years of the Journal of Business and the greater Spokane business climate, an old Tim McGraw song, “My Next Thirty Years,” comes to

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