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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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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.