Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career

This is another wake-up call to get a handle on runaway medical inflation. We're approaching $1,000 for the average stay in a hospital. This is hurting people and really overloading our economy.

It fits in with the picture that the labor market is turned, inflation has turned and in a few more months they'll be tightening.

Despite low unemployment, wage growth remains contained. With job gains slowing, the risks from wage inflation appear to be receding. Interest rates will remain on hold in 2006.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.