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You've seen the headline a hundred times. "Economy grows at 2.4% in the second quarter." Maybe you didn't pay attention, maybe you scroll past it. Either way, there's a decent chance you've never quite connected that number to anything
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You hear it every month. The news cuts to a reporter standing outside the Labor Department, or a headline flashes across your screen: "Unemployment holds steady at 4.1%." Maybe you nod, maybe you scroll past. Either way, you probably wonder, at some level, what that number actually
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Imagine you're sitting down to review your monthly bills. Your credit card minimum payment increasing up. Your car loan rate seems higher than what your friend got two years ago. Your savings account is finally paying you something or maybe it's still paying almost nothing. You
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You go to the same grocery store you've shopped at for years. You buy roughly the same things; eggs, bread, chicken, some cereal, maybe a bag of coffee. But lately, you walk out spending $30 more than you used to. Nothing fancy changed. You didn't upgrade