Measuring key aspects of a nation’s economy is important, but the metrics used are often misunderstood by many. Quantifying ...

This disparity impacts everyday Americans who now find their paychecks do not stretch as far as they once did. The Consumer ...

Economists like me rely on data from federal data collection agencies like the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the ...

Progress on inflation should stall this year” as fiscal, immigration and trade policies shift, caution Bank of America ...

And all this productivity is why wage growth keeps beating inflation, said Betsey Stevenson, a professor of economics at the ...

Entering 2025, models from forecasting companies like Trading Economics anticipate inflation rates between 2.4% and 2.9% ...

The Consumer Price Index rose 2.9 percent from a year earlier, but a measure of underlying inflation was more encouraging.

The consumer price index, an inflation gauge, rose 2.9% on an annual basis in December 2024 on the back of higher food and ...

The better-than-expected data sent the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average surging more than 700 points, or 1.7%, as ...

Healthy employment conditions and wage growth continue to outpace inflation, but that’s not creating any additional ...

There are growing concerns about the stickiness of inflation and fears that the Federal Reserve may have to keep interest ...