Consumer prices rose 2.9% in August compared to a year ago, marking an uptick in price increases as President Donald Trump's ...

Simulations using a Phillips curve-type relationship provide insights into the importance of demand versus supply for inflation over different periods. The decade of low inflation after the Great ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s comments Wednesday appeared to heighten financial experts’ fears that tariffs on goods imported to the U.S. could bring about an economic condition known as ...

Wonder Land: In 2016 they lay down in the street to stop traffic. In 2024 they had cookies and milk. Photo: Brian Snyder/Reuters/Mark Wilson/Getty Images Inflation is remaking America—again. It looms ...

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 ...

The Federal Reserve is facing an increasingly difficult economic environment as it tries to keep the economy on track and get inflation to return to normal levels after sweeping tariffs rolled out ...

U.S. consumer prices increased by the most in seven months in August amid higher costs for housing and food, but a surge in first-time applications for jobless benefits last week kept the Federal ...

President Donald Trump’s decision to impose large tariffs on all foreign imports has triggered a global trade war, stock market collapse — and predictions of an imminent recession. In the wake of ...

The US economy is facing a K-shaped recovery, with some segments of the population doing well while others are struggling, and the Fed must balance short-run demands with long-term threats to its ...