tomgidel is an independent publication that explains economics and markets in plain language — inflation, interest rates, GDP, trade and market cycles. Everything here is free to read and informational only; we sell nothing.
Economic news often assumes background knowledge that isn't always taught clearly. We go back to the fundamentals, and explain how they connect.
How inflation is measured, what drives it, and why it affects different households differently.
How central banks set rates, and how that decision ripples through loans, savings and prices.
What gross domestic product actually measures, and where it falls short as an indicator.
How expansions, slowdowns and recoveries tend to unfold, and why timing them is harder than it looks.
A lot of "economics and markets" content online exists to sell a trading course, a subscription newsletter, or an investment platform. tomgidel was built as the opposite: a free, informational resource that explains how economic mechanisms actually work, clearly enough that you can follow the news with more context, without being sold anything along the way.
News coverage, reader mail and forums keep surfacing the same handful of confusing concepts.
Central bank publications, academic economics and public statistics agencies ground every explainer.
Every guide includes a real or illustrative example so the concept isn't just abstract theory.
Guides are dated and periodically reviewed so figures and context stay current.
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