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Inflation is caused by the gradual increase in the prices of goods and services throughout the economy. Low inflation is necessary for the economy, but too much inflation causes serious problems.

The Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) is a lifeline for millions of Americans on Social Security, designed to counteract ...

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee warned that rising inflation could pose a stagflation risk if ...

American voters often rank inflation as the most important issue facing the US. But something odd has happened to ...

MPs returned to the House of Commons earlier this month to confront an old problem — inflation — which is now being driven by ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Robinson Meyer of the climate and energy site Heatmap News why electricity bills are rising faster than inflation.

Forecasters expect inflation to continue rising in the fourth quarter as President Donald Trump's tariffs continue to push up prices for everyday goods and services.

Diccon Hyatt is an experienced financial and economics reporter who has covered the pandemic-era economy in hundreds of stories over the past two years. He's written hundreds of stories breaking down ...

Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics head. In Argentina, the government manipulated the inflation rate. Economists went rogue to calculate the real rate, and people lost trust in the numbers.

Conservative Leader doesn’t want to simply argue food prices rose under Liberal rule, he wants to blame inflation directly on ...