Inflation rose last month to its highest level since February as President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs push up the cost ...

A number of factors, including a lack of significant gains in auto prices, are masking the extent of the shift.

The U.S. economy has defied dire predictions so far this year. Many economists see growth slowing – and tariff-driven ...

A fresh report on Tuesday marked two consecutive months of rising inflation. Consumer prices rose 2.7% in June compared to a ...

Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core inflation increased 2.9 percent in June from a year earlier, up from 2.8 percent in May. On a monthly basis, it picked up 0.2 percent from May ...

President Trump’s tariffs have yet to reverse the disinflation trend that’s persisted since January, baffling economists and the bearish views that color the consensus narrative.

Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Analytics, joins WSJ’s Take On the Week podcast to explain how recent politics is ...

The independence of central banks, which allows policymakers to operate free from political meddling, is considered ...

Despite the surge in inflation in December, many economists are looking for the rate of price increases to ease beginning mid-this year. "December’s increase to 7.0% ...

Inflation peak: After a string of 40-year highs, will inflation slow down? Some economists think so. Food prices are going up: Here are items predicted to cost a whole lot more at grocery stores.

In 1996, economist Robert Shiller administered a survey about inflation and its effects to 677 people—both economists and non-economists—in the U.S., Brazil, and Germany. Here’s part of the ...

Economists are getting a dose of humility on forecasting inflation after a resurgent coronavirus, a tenuous global supply network and stimulus-fueled consumers combined to send U.S. prices well ...