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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 26: Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference after a Federal Open Market Committee meeting on July 26, 2023 at the Federal Reserve in ...

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 ...

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 ...

This month, higher prices helped deliver the presidency from the Democrats to Donald Trump. A CBS News Election Day poll showed three-quarters of voters considered inflation a hardship. “I think that ...

Diccon Hyatt is an experienced financial and economics reporter. He's written hundreds of articles breaking down complex financial topics in plain language, emphasizing the impact that economic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The relationship between interest rates and inflation is an important concept for investors to understand because of the widespread impacts it can have on the greater economy. When inflation increases ...

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 ...