inflation

U.S. consumers’ views of current economic conditions improved in April while expectations for the future faded a bit.

Prices of cars, trucks, and soup are up by less than 1 percent compard with a year ago. TV prices have fallen by 19.3 percent

Excluding food and energy, inflation was at its tamest since February of 2018. Economists had expected higher prices.

The Fed says it aims for 2 percent inflation. As this year began, inflation fell further below that target.

Who pays for tariffs? A year after Trump announced tariffs on steel and aluminum, there’s no sign of tariff induced-inflation.

Still no signs that the price level of consumer goods is rising due to a rising budget deficit or tariffs on imported goods.

A new study seems to show a very small loss from tariffs. But a closer look shows even that is produced by flawed analysis.

The Fed’s pivot led to an increase in plans to buy big-ticket items but also triggered worries about the health of the economy.

U.S. consumer sentiment snapped back in February from a two-year low hit last month, indicating that the weak December retail sales reported this week were a temporary slump.

Consumer prices once again demonstrate that American households are not being squeezed by tariffs on metals and China imports

Inflation is running well below expectations with U.S. consumer prices unchanged in January, the third consecutive month of flat prices.

In fact, wages are beating inflation and layoffs are at record lows.

Consumer prices on many items subject to tariffs actually fell in December, defying predictions that the trade war would weigh on American consumers.

Inflation is still very tame and even seems to be slowing down.

Stocks may well rebound in the new year. But for now, Jerome Powell has put a giant lump of coal in America’s Christmas stocking.

Inflation in the crisis-stricken country of Venezuela is on track to hit 1.4 million percent by the end of 2018, according to the latest report from the International Monetary Fund. 

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.”

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