The latest inflation data is in, and unfortunately, it comes with more bad news for consumers. The Consumer Price Index data, released today, shows that inflation climbed to 2.9% in August, marking ...

A presidential campaign light on policy substance took a sudden turn this week into the details of governing, as both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris sought to show they have credible proposals for ...

The Federal Reserve’s premature victory lap over inflation reveals a worrisome misunderstanding of the predicament we still find ourselves in. Unprecedented government spending and debt, combined with ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Specialist in global markets, economics and alternative investments. Inflation concerns are on the rise again. The Federal Reserve ...

July’s Consumer Price Index inflation report is expected to continue the pattern of disinflation seen in recent months. Current expectations for a September rate cut are relatively high, so it is ...

When Russian peasants set fire to hundreds of buildings in Moscow in 1648, the acute cause was a sharp rise in the price of salt. When they rioted again 12 years later, it was to protest a government ...

6 August 2025 - UN DESA’s Economic Analysis and Policy Division hosted a three-part Development Policy Seminar series in July to present new thinking on inflation. Discussions focused on issues such ...

In some ways, voters’ anger about inflation might seem a little odd. While inflation was very high from the middle of 2021 through early 2023, it’s come down dramatically since, and is currently just ...

USA TODAY asked economists to ascribe blame for the historic run of inflation, which reached a 40-year peak in mid-2022. Inflation has cooled since then, to an annual rate of 2.6% in October. But ...

Gold investors are experiencing some serious whiplash right now. Earlier this week, prices crashed from the latest record-high of above $4,300 per ounce, dipping all the way down to about $4,000 per ...

Inflation is still a thing. Prices were 2.6% higher in October than a year earlier, according to the latest Consumer Price Index, released Wednesday. That's a much lower inflation rate than American ...

LONDON, Sept 5 (Reuters) - A raft of eminent economists have called for a short, sharp, controlled burst of inflation to solve the problem of over-indebtedness and pull the advanced economies out of a ...