We’ve been hearing a lot about inflation lately. You can certainly feel the effects of inflation in higher prices for th ...

Former central banker Neil Grossman added historical context, noting that the 2% inflation concept originated with the Reserve Bank of New Zealand in 1995 before other central banks adopted it.

Economists with Morgan Stanley Research said in a report on Friday that they expect inflation in 2025 to rise 2.5%, up from their previous forecast in December of 2.3%. Another key gauge that ...

But policymakers spend an inordinate amount of time talking about measures of core prices, which exclude food and energy, and that undoubtedly influences their decisions. Since the 1970s, economists ...

every level of fighting inflation.” That plan — or to use Trump’s verbiage, concept of a plan — involves cutting government spending and “supply-side things,” Hassett said.

The report, which marks the fourth consecutive month of higher inflation, showed that the following items saw price increases on a month-over-month basis. Recent sticky inflation data backs the ...

Then, inflation had been low for years, and the concept barely registered in the national mind. Trump also kept delaying the start of his trade war and shrinking the list of items to be hit with ...

After sampling an economic cocktail of inflation and slowing growth stirred up first by tariff uncertainty and now by actual tariffs, hints of another unsavory concept are wafting through: stagflation ...

There are two big risks dominating the inflation outlook, central bank deputy governor Andrew Hauser told the Financial ...