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News about inflation has been everywhere over the past few years. But even if you haven’t been watching TV or reading the financial press, you’ve no doubt felt some pain in your wallet as prices for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Greg Licholai writes and teaches about innovation in healthcare. In 2022, the Biden Administration enacted the Inflation Reduction ...

Does inflation help improve public finances? This paper documents the dynamic responses of fiscal variables to an inflation shock, using both quarterly and annual panel data for a broad set of ...

Inflation and the EconomyInflation is one of the most important and frequently discussed economic topics. Economists, policymakers, and the public care about inflation because it leads to the ...

Central banks in major industrialized economies were slow to react to the surge in inflation that began in early 2021. The proximate causes of this surge were the supply chain disruptions associated ...

New government data shows inflation may be showing signs of easing. That may be good news for retirees and people approaching retirement. The Social Security cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, may be ...

The study "The Well-Being Cost of Inflation Inequalities" was supported by the French National Research Agency Grant ANR-17-EURE-0020. Research support by the CEPREMAP Well-being Observatory and the ...

The United States announced new, higher tariff rates this year. Tariffs can affect supply chains, investment, and firms’ input costs, resulting in supply-side effects such as higher inflation and ...

Consumer-price index is up 2.7% in past year - and climbing The numbers: Consumer prices in June posted the biggest increase since the beginning of the year and are likely to keep the Federal Reserve ...

Inflation is still very high. Inflation is falling very slowly. There is no certainty how fast inflation will fall in the future. One faction favoring early Fed rate cuts seeks a soft landing. A soft ...