Rising prices have been crushing consumer confidence and biting at Americans’ wallets for more than five years now.
Fallout from these decisions pushed prices higher and pressured worker pay ...
The consumer price index rose 2.9% on an annual basis in August 2025, the fastest pace of inflation since January. Tariffs levied by President Donald Trump seem to be putting upward pressure on ...
As I stated multiple times in my previous articles, a much higher inflation risk is a tangible problem, but the market doesn’t seem to care about it, at least for now. The reasons why I am so ...
Financial social media has once again become obsessed with the familiar inflation chart – the current U.S. inflation trajectory overlaid against the infamous inflation spiral of the 1970s. For ...
President Donald Trump shared a chart on Sunday which made inflation during his second term look great in comparison to other modern presidents — but it wasn't exactly an apples-to-apples comparison.
Rather, about the topic on which the economist, former treasury secretary and former Harvard president has been so irritatingly correct in recent years: the state of the American economy. He ...
Adjusted for inflation, consumer spending in August rose by 0.55% MoM and by 2.6% YoY. The dizzying rates of consumer ...
Inflation throttled back in March, largely on lower gasoline prices — but tariffs threaten to reverse that downward trend in coming months while trouble also lurks in certain categories like groceries ...