The Fed’s preferred inflation guage has moved below 3% for the first time since March 2021, before the start of the central bank’s rate-hiking campaign. Retired Ripon College economist Paul Schoofs says inflation cooled last month even as the economy kept growing briskly. Friday’s government report showed that prices rose just 0.2 percent from November to December, a pace broadly consistent with pre-pandemic levels and barely above the Fed’s 2% annual target. Compared with a year ago, prices increased 2.6 percent, the same as in the previous month.
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photo: waupun mayor rohn bishop The Waupun Common Council has postponed action on wage increases for paid on call firefighters and elected officials to get more public input. The council discussed the matter, sometimes heated, at their meeting this week and will take up the issue again at their April 8th meeting. If […]
todayMarch 27, 2025
A house fire near New Holstein claimed the life of a child. Shortly after 2am Wednesday firefighters were called to the scene on Honeymoon Hill Road near County Road T. A child in the home was pronounced dead at a hospital. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
todayMarch 27, 2025
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