Inflation and the EconomyInflation is one of the most important and frequently discussed economic topics. Economists, ...

The debate over how far to cut interest rates while inflation remains above target has pushed inflation measurement back to ...

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Pres. Raphael Bostic knows hiring has cooled off, but he remains most concerned about keeping ...

The Federal Reserve’s policymakers ought to ask why, with inflation stuck at 3%, investors have so confidently priced in at least two further interest-rate cuts starting today. The case for these cuts ...

Economists are sounding the alarm that 2026 is shaping up as a year of slower hiring and stickier prices, even as headline ...

Recent inflation data is misleading due to outliers; underlying price growth remains close to 3%. Learn more on my 'higher ...

South Africa’s finance minister adopted a 3% inflation target, giving political backing to the central bank which lobbied for the change, while cautioning that debt will now peak at a slightly higher ...

Consumer-price inflation is at 3%, well above the Federal Reserve's target Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks at a news conference in September. The Federal Reserve is almost universally ...

Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi lamented what could’ve been, if President Donald Trump hadn’t waged war on trade and immigration. In a social media post on Sunday, he noted that prices ...

Inflation declined a bit last month as prices for gas and used cars fell, a sign that cost pressures are slowly easing ...

For a century, economists have taught us to fear falling prices. But the deflation phobia stems from a misreading of the ...

By looking at the inflation rate each year, you can gain insight into how prices changed and how events around the globe impacted the average U.S. consumer.