US inflation is down considerably from a four-decade high reached nearly two years ago. Now, as the Federal Reserve faces the final stretch of its historic inflation battle, a bigger pool of workers ...

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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 ...

Inflation rose as expected last month, as the lingering impact of the yearslong above-trend price increases continues to weigh on the minds of Americans. Annual inflation is far closer to the historic ...

The recent surge in inflation is likely to get worse over the next several months, according to a survey Friday from the nation's top economists. Consumer price inflation is projected to hit 6% for ...

This paper investigates why the post-COVID inflation surge, though globally synchronized, led to widely divergent outcomes across countries. Using cross-country regressions for 130 economies and local ...

A new indicator—the Inflation Shock Momentum Index—can help identify emerging inflationary or disinflationary pressures in real time. The index tracks the shares of consumer spending categories that ...

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