inflation

They keep saying tariffs are taxes on American consumers and forcing prices higher. And every month inflation data shows that is not true.

No signs of inflation for November. And no signs that tariffs are raising prices either.

While plenty of businesses have complained about tariffs and threatened to raise prices on consumers, Apple’s iPhone travails provide a cautionary lesson.

The latest data from the Labor Department shows that the prices of many things subject to Trump’s tariffs are actually falling.

Official figures show that average earnings in Britain are rising at their highest rate since the most acute phase of the global financial crisis a decade ago.

There’s a mysterious category in PPI called “trade services” that might have created an illusion of inflation in October.

Prices on home appliances, electronics, cars, trucks, soaps, and even toilet paper fell in October.

Farm deflation could pressure the Fed to back off on interest rates.

China’s economy is weakening as the trade war escalates.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte survived many scandals with his poll numbers largely intact, but support for the seemingly unsinkable strongman is finally waning, polls showed on Monday.

The price of beer, soup, phones, and televisions have all declined while tariffs have gone up.

Wage growth outpaced expectations in the United Kingdom in the year to July, the latest figures show, with pay having risen above inflation for four straight months in good news for British workers. 

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who would likely become Speaker of the House if Democrats win the midterm elections in November, trashed Friday’s jobs report — even though Blackrock  called it “the greatest of all time.”

Contents: US court seizes Socialist Venezuela’s Citgo as compensation for mine nationalization; Argentina’s peso collapses after central bank raises interest rate to 60%; Turkey and Argentina lead the world’s developing countries in falling currencies

Remember when they said tariffs would raise the prices of beer, soup, and canned food? The latest data shows that prices are actually falling.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro announced the creation of a Ministry of Interior Commerce on Sunday that he claims will “unify” the country’s private and public sectors.

Hint: If we were desperately short of workers, wages would be rising.

Jobless claims unexpectedly fell last week and price data suggests inflation is still muted.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro has removed five zeroes from the country’s Bolivar currency amid inflation that is expected to reach one million percent by the end of the year.

Inflation-adjusted wages were flat for the second month in a row.

Inflation was surprisingly weak in April, with so-called core CPI actually declining from earlier in the year.

The smaller than expected rise is a sign inflationary pressures in the economy remain low. The rise was the lowest since December, when producer prices were unchanged.

“We want wages to go up,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said at a conference in Los Angeles Monday.

Fed officials appear to be convinced that tax cuts and the recent federal budget agreement would add to economic growth. Tariffs on steel and aluminum were not seen as threatening, although federal officials did worry about foreign retaliation.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro announced on Tuesday that he will knock three zeros off their currency and create a new monetary system known as the “sovereign bolivar.”

The consumer price index rose 0.2 percent from a month earlier, hitting the consensus forecast. The rise in prices was lower than the prior month, when the CPI rose 0.5 percent.

Garrett Camp, the creator and co-founder of Uber, has unveiled a new Bitcoin-like digital currency, “Eco,” with elite gatekeepers and unlimited inflation built into its protocol — and he needs a billion-strong email list to distribute it.

The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits last week rose from near a 45-year low, according to Labor Department data released Thursday.

U.S consumer prices increased by more than expected in January.

LONDON (AP) — The pound has pushed above the $1.40 level as traders price in a growing likelihood of another interest rate increase in May from the Bank of England.