This time, I wrote an article for Zenn that leans a bit more toward macroeconomics.The theme is, "Why does a rise in crude ...

A Federal Reserve Governor urged policymakers to complicate the relationship between inflation and unemployment in the 2025 Whittington Lecture at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public ...

Say “inflation” these days and the minds of most Americans jump to steep grocery bills and high interest rates. As highlighted by two recent papers by Stefanie Stantcheva, the Nathaniel Ropes ...

US inflation came in line with expectations in November. The Consumer Price Index, a measure of goods and services across the country, rose 0.3% from October to November, a 2.7% gain from the same ...

Anticipation of incoming president Trump’s tariffs has caused confusion regarding high prices and high inflation. They are not really the same. The effect of tariffs is to push prices up, but not to ...

Inflation is the rate at which the general level of prices for goods and services in an economy increases over time, eroding purchasing power. When inflation occurs, each unit of currency buys fewer ...

The consumer price index moderated again in June 2024, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Thursday. The CPI annual inflation rate has declined to 3% from a 9.1% pandemic-era peak in 2022. Neither ...