Inflation and the EconomyInflation is one of the most important and frequently discussed economic topics. Economists, ...

In 2022, inflation reached a 40-year high in the United States. This affected everything from groceries to gasoline; so if you found yourself wincing every time you had to fill up your car's tank, you ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The emergence of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 may be starting to wear down Americans’ confidence in their finances in the middle of this holiday season. Consumer confidence dropped almost two ...

Economists forecast the CPI to rise 0.2% in May after rising by the same amount in April. The goods data will be closely watched for early signs of tariff-driven inflation, with larger impacts ...

A strong debate has broken out among economists and statisticians over Nigeria’s inflation “normalisation” process, with experts disagreeing on whether the recent changes to the Consumer Price Index ...