The June consumer price index will be the latest glimpse into whether tariffs are having an effect on consumer prices.

In his May 2025 quarterly announcement, Federal Reserve (Fed) chair Jerome Powell warned of the rising risk of stagflation, a dreaded combination of high inflation and unemployment. Mainstream ...

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In the 1970s, moves meant to boost employment went wrong, causing inflation to skyrocket and creating one of the most painful economic disasters of the century.

Jerome Powell is eyeing lower inflation, but Oxford Economics says it’ll rise after the presidential election—no matter who wins.

What causes inflation? How does inflation cause a change in socioeconomic history? Here are three books to help you explore the subject in depth.

The hand-written entries in the two dozen notebooks - date, haircut, price - chronicle decades of a Buenos Aires barber's working life. But they tell another story too, Argentina's most important ...

Isabella Weber’s heterodox ideas about government price controls are transforming policy in the United States and across Europe.

The Federal Reserve has been extremely aggressive in its attempt to bring inflation down by quickly raising interest rates. Some economists continue to wonder whether it's too much too fast.

The Biden era's high inflation has been terrible for the economy and the country generally. But did it save us from a more permanent progressive takeover of federal government policy?