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WASHINGTON — The European Union’s top economic adviser is warning the world that stagflation, a slowing of economic growth combined with rising inflation, may be on the horizon due to the ongoing hostilities between the United States and Iran.

Higher gasoline prices pushed up the consumer price index in March but price pressures were muted outside of energy.

A careful reading of the latest data shows an economy where the inflation problem is largely behind us.

A year ago, President Trump said he would bring egg prices down. That is a promise made and a promise kept.

Speaking to undergraduate economics students at Harvard University, Powell said the standard central-banking response to energy shocks is to wait them out rather than react with policy changes.

What looked this week like a fresh sign of rising inflation may have sprouted months earlier in the desert around Yuma, Arizona.

Somewhere between the economics department and the checkout line, the great tariff inflation failed to arrive.

Consumer prices continued to rise at a moderate rate in February.

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “The Bottom Line,” former Trump Economic Adviser Stephen Moore stated that now might not be the best time to lower rates because of a potential bump in inflation due to a spike

This week President Trump reminded us that the state of our union is great again, the economists spilled nerd blood over the definition of a balance of payments problem, and AI came for the technology companies.

AI spending and margin expansion drive producer price index while consumer prices decline.

President Trump led off his State of the Union speech by addressing the state of the economy, highlighting the progress on bringing down inflation after the Biden-Powell surge that undermined America’s post-pandemic recovery.

The best quarter since Donald Trump left office.

Last year’s home pricel increase marks slowest pace in over 15 years as homes become more affordable in real terms

Companies across the United States say they expect inflation to remain subdued this year, according to surveys from Federal Reserve banks that show business price expectations falling to their lowest levels since before the 2022 inflation surge.

President Donald Trump touted his administration’s successes in his Presidents’ Day message on Monday.

On Friday’s “CNN News Central,” Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA) reacted to the most recent CPI numbers by saying that he’s “not quite sure about the accuracy” and “this is a periodic snapshot. So, we might see higher numbers in the

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WASHINGTON–President Donald Trump touted low inflation on Friday while departing the White House en route to Fort Bragg with first lady Melania Trump.

“Starting on day one, we will end inflation and make America affordable again, to bring down the prices of all goods,” President Trump said at an August 2024.

And he did it.

Core inflation at its slowest annual pace since March 2021.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Carl Higbie Frontline,” White House Deputy Press Secretary Kush Desai said people have negative views of the economy because there are “a lot of Americans who are struggling with Joe Biden’s affordability crisis.” And also

A Silver Lining in a Soot-Soaked Retail Sales Report Analysts had visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads for December retail sales. Instead, they got a lump of coal. The Census Bureau said Tuesday that retail sales were flat

Americans’ expectations for inflation over the next year fell in January to the lowest level in 12 months, according to a survey released Monday by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The median expectation for inflation one year from

Wells Fargo estimates the tab is up just 1.6 percent from last year.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday that Iran’s ruling elite are “wiring money out of the country like crazy,” declaring that “the rats are leaving the ship” as the Trump administration’s pressure campaign accelerates the regime’s economic collapse.

The current consensus growth estimate of 2.1 percent for 2026 is almost certainly too low.

Business expectations have fallen all the way down to the Fed’s two percent target.

The shot heard ’round the world was not fired by President Donald Trump but by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, who insisted he was merely defending his territory from an unwelcome intrusion of Justice Department interferers.

The December CPI data is clear: the tariff inflation crisis was an elite panic disconnected from economic reality.

Inflation was mild outside of an increase in energy prices in November, a key gauge of prices showed Wednesday. The producer price index for final demand, which measures prices paid to U.S. producers of goods and services, rose by 0.2

Argentina’s yearly inflation in 2025 came in at 31.5 percent — the lowest in eight years – the National Institute of Statistics and Census of Argentina (INDEC) announced Tuesday.

President Donald Trump touted the “Trump economic boom” is underway during his remarks at the Detroit Economic Club in Michigan Tuesday.

Core goods prices—a measure which excludes food and energy that many economists would face tariff pressure—were flat for the month and up just 1.4 percent from a year ago.

The average national price for a gallon of gas dropped to $2.796, the lowest we’ve seen since 2021, per AAA.

Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa rolled out the country’s new currency at a ceremony in Damascus on Monday.