There are different types of inflation that could affect your long-term savings and investments. One such type is called cost-push inflation, which happens when prices go up because production costs, ...

The U.S. economic situation has stumped many economists as inflation since the COVID-19 pandemic continues to defy simple explanations. In 2021, the Federal Reserve Board believed inflation was ...

Inflation isn’t a four-letter word, but the way that everyone from economists to TV pundits to politicians talks about it, it might as well be. Even if you don’t know exactly how inflation works, ...

According to the US inflation calculator, the inflation rate in the US averaged below 2 percent a year from 2012 through 2020. Then it shot up to seven percent in calendar year 2021 and so far in 2022 ...

Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, a member of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee and its former chairman, has tied inflation costing households an extra $175 a month to President Biden. That extra $175 a month ...

Responding to stubbornly rising inflation, the U.S. Federal Reserve has pledged to raise interest rates more quickly than expected, which will likely dampen a red-hot housing market. On the other hand ...

Britain's inflation rate looks set to hit 4% in September in data due for release on Wednesday, the highest among the world's ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Inflation simply means that prices are rising. There is only one reason for that: total demand in the economy is greater than total supply. Why is that occurring today? Let’s first make some basic ...

Saturday’s unexpected press conference from Patriots coach Bill Belchick seemed like an effort to put the issue behind the team as the trip to Phoenix and Super Bowl XLIX awaits. But Belichick’s words ...

With inflation we seem to have a problem of definitions. More specifically, everyone seems to want to give inflation a definition as opposed to accepting the definition. It’s the word equivalent of ...