“Stagflation is basically the worst of all worlds,” an expert told ABC News. For months, sky-high prices have pummeled the budgets of everyday Americans. But many have offset the damage, at least in ...

Widely seen as a nightmare economic scenario, it’s the rare double blow of rising prices and weak growth, squeezing consumers at the checkout line and in the job market. “The whiff of stagflation is ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Steve Vernon, FSA, helps retirees make their money last for life. Red warning lights are flashing that the U.S. might be entering ...

President Nixon tried to cure stagflation by increasing government spending to fight the 1970 recession and imposing wage and price controls in 1971. However, the problem was not really “cured” until ...

(Reuters) -Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Austan Goolsbee on Monday said that with unemployment near 4% and inflation around 2.5% and falling, he sees no possibility that tariffs or another ...

Fears of U.S. stagflation are spreading through global markets, pushing some investors to reshuffle portfolios to limit the damage that tariffs could deal to growth and prices. A BofA Global Research ...

President Trump’s trade war is likely to lead to higher prices and slower growth, a challenging combination for the Fed. War in the Middle East could make the job harder still. By Ben Casselman The ...

A new economic term has entered the social media stage. “Stagflation” is a term coined by the combination of stagnation and inflation, a duo of economic forces coming to a head. According to Alan Gin, ...

Some economists are cautioning that President Trump's sweeping new tariffs on U.S. trade partners, which took effect Thursday, increase the risks that the U.S. economy could enter a period of ...

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon cautioned that it’s possible that the United States could fall into a period of stagflation, as reported by CNN. Stagflation is a situation where an economy experiences ...

In a recent interview, the University of Michigan professor cautioned that Americans could soon get "‘two bad tastes at the same time'—rising unemployment and rising inflation." Wolfers explained that ...

With inflation rising and hiring slowing, a dreaded word is back in the conversation: “stagflation.” Widely seen as a nightmare economic scenario, it’s the rare double blow of rising prices and weak ...