Inflation might be coming. The data says: not yet. In financial markets there are few things you can count on. But one thing we know will surely come up sooner rather than later are widespread ...
Inflation is a decrease in the purchasing power of money, reflected in a general increase in the prices of goods and services in an economy.
The Federal Reserve has confronted a challenging economic environment since the COVID-19 pandemic struck four years ago. First, it was criticized for acting too slowly to contain the spike in ...
This paper uses data from surveys of expected inflation to learn how expectations processes have changed following recent changes in the behavior of inflation. Households do not appear to have ...
This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Jessica Mendoza: High inflation is a problem that the government has been trying ...
On the economic data front, the U.S. annual inflation rate rose to 2.6% in October from 2.4% in the previous month, which is in line with market estimates. The CPI rose 0.2% month-over-month in ...
A recent version of the Ibre Letter, a monthly economic analysis from Brazil's Institute of Economics at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation, explained why domestic food prices are rising faster than the ...
Markets behave as if the UK inflation process has changed. The data suggest it has not. Britain has been hit by one shock after another since 2020 — pandemic supply disruptions, the energy crisis ...
Fed Chair Jerome Powell expressed satisfaction with the progress on inflation but said he wants to see more before being confident enough to start cutting interest rates. "We want to be more confident ...
My friend Jared Bernstein calls our attention to the rebirth of the inflation hawks. Apparently, there is a new craze among economists to say that we are in a period of structurally higher inflation.