Excluding volatile food and energy prices, so-called core inflation was 2.9%, up from 2.6% in the April-June quarter.

The Fed could have waited for delayed economic reports on inflation and employment, Goolsbee says Top officials at the Federal Reserve are not in agreement about how to help the economy. Two top ...

Fed officials explained their opposition to the central bank’s decision this week to cut interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point. By Colby Smith Colby Smith cover the Federal Reserve.

The year-over-year inflation rate in January, the month President Donald Trump returned to the White House, was 3.0%. The year-over-year inflation rate in September, the most recent month for which ...

Trump accounts are a new type of tax-deferred investment vehicle for U.S. children, created under President Trump's "big, beautiful bill" tax and spending bill, which promises $1,000 seed ...

Will President Donald Trump's massive tax law passed in July turn out to be more sweeping than policymakers expected? The legislation, which Republican leaders dubbed the "One Big Beautiful Bill," ...

Inflation, inflation, inflation. We keep hearing how terrible it is, but is it really as bad as it seems? We know grocery and restaurant prices are up. We’ve been warned about the impact of tariffs on ...

The economic force is often seen as a barometer for a nation’s mood and health. But have we misunderstood it all along? Donald Trump holds a big and a small box of Tic Tac to illustrate inflation ...

Inflation sits at the center of modern economic cycles. When inflation is high, central banks raise interest rates, reduce liquidity and push investors toward safer assets. When inflation falls, ...

Anthony Salvanto, Ph.D., is CBS News' executive director of elections and surveys. He oversees the CBS News Poll and all surveys across topics and heads the CBS News Decision Desk that estimates ...

LONDON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - It is conventional wisdom to say Britain has an inflation problem. But fears over "sticky" CPI may have finally peaked. At first glance, this suggestion might look a little ...

John Hawkins was formerly a senior economist at the Reserve Bank of Australia. A new “complete” monthly consumer price index (CPI) will be released next week, and will become Australia’s primary ...