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The Fed just raised rates. Here's what that actually means for you.

A quarter-point hike, the first since 2023 — what it changes for Americans, and for everyone else.

The Nobel Prize in Economics isn't actually a Nobel Prize. Here's the real story.

How the prize was created, how winners are actually chosen, and the laureates — from Milton Friedman to Claudia Goldin — who shaped the field.

Why does everyone keep calling inflation "sticky"?

The word shows up in every headline. Here's what it actually means, and why central banks can't get rid of it as fast as they'd like.

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Written by Pierre

An economics and finance student at UQAM, I spent several years running my own construction businesses before heading back to school. That detour taught me something: most economic concepts that sound complicated aren't — they're just badly explained.

Markets in Plain grew out of that idea. Each piece takes a current economic or financial story and explains it without jargon and without assuming a background in the subject.

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