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Prices rose by 0.2 percent in April compared with March. Economists had forecast a 0.3 percent. Compared with a year ago, prices are up 2.3 percent, less than the 2.4 percent forecast.

Yesterday’s Breitbart Business Digest explained that the front-running on tariffs came from businesses and not from consumers. Today we expand on the evidence and explain why this is bullish for the economy.

The disappointing headline GDP number was enough to spark another round of recession hand-wringing across Wall Street and the financial press. But the details tell a different story.

100 days into the Trump administration, inflation has come down to zero.

Removing Jerome Powell as Fed chair might not give Trump the interest rate cuts he wants.

U.S. consumer prices fell in March, pushed down by a decline in the price of goods and defying predictions that President Trump’s tariff plans would push up prices. This was the first drop in consumer prices in nearly three years and only the second decline since inflation accelerated under Joe Biden to the worst rates in decades.

Argentina’s poverty rate fell from 52.9 to 38.1 percent during the second half of 2024, per the National Institute of Statistics and Census.

The persistence of inflation above the Fed’s 2 percent target underscores that price pressures are building before the newly announced tariffs on imports have taken effect.

The notion that tariffs cause inflation has become a super-virus infecting the minds of President Trump’s critics, seemingly immune to the usual antibiotics of economic evidence and logic.

The Expectations Index — a gauge of how consumers view future income, business, and labor market conditions — plummeted to 65.2, the lowest level in 12 years.

Trump’s plan to scale back government is about more than just balancing the books. It’s about forcing the economy to confront the reality that government-driven growth is a lie.

U.S. economic growth accelerated in March, driven by a strong rebound in the services sector that more than offset a renewed decline in manufacturing.

The Federal Reserve’s latest projections show that tariffs are not the primary driver of higher inflation forecasts.

President Donald Trump is demanding the Federal Reserve cut interest rates, escalating a high-stakes clash between the White House and the central bank as his administration prepares to unleash a new wave of tariffs.

The far-left New York Times cannot even report on the tremendous news egg prices have dropped by nearly half since last month without reporting it as bad news — you know, because Orange Man Bad.

In an exclusive interview with “The Alex Marlow Show” podcast, Peter Navarro explained how the Trump administration plans to decisively defeat inflation and why the media is getting it all wrong.

The Federal Reserve left its benchmark interest rate unchanged on Wednesday, holding steady at 4.25 percent to 4.5 percent for a second consecutive meeting.

The U.S. economy is no longer running on government stimulus and consumption-driven policies. It is being powered by a return to production, and that is the defining economic shift of 2025.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Breitbart News exclusively on Thursday that President Donald Trump’s administration is employing an “all hands on deck” whole-of-government approach to undoing the damage to the economy that Democrats like former President Joe Biden left behind.

“When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One,” Donald Trump said on the campaign trail last summer.

In his first full month in office, that’s exactly what happened.

Americans are far happier with the economic leadership of President Trump than they were under Joe Biden.

BlackRock founder Larry Fink is warning President Donald Trump’s MAGA policies might cause some inflation before emerging technology allows American citizens to earn higher wages without inflation.

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins told Breitbart News exclusively that President Donald Trump’s administration will be focusing its egg price reduction efforts on repopulation of chickens and on biosecurity measures, and that the administration is now ruling out any vaccines for animals against avian bird flu.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that he would be appointing an “affordability czar” to tackle hight prices effecting consumers.

During an interview aired on Thursday’s “PBS NewsHour,” Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE) said that she wants people to recognize that Democrats are “all in this fighting to make sure that the cost of eggs [is] not skyrocketing, even though

The latest GDP report released Thursday by the Bureau of Economic Analysis confirms what many economists had been quietly warning: beneath the surface, the economy is weaker than it seemed.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) argued that “the prices at the grocery store are going up because democracy is being taken away.” And “The impact on you in terms of your health

Some analysts argue that these “DOGE Dividends” could contribute to inflation. However, the economic impact of this policy differs significantly from the Biden-era stimulus measures that drove inflation to four decade highs.

A sharp partisan divide over economic expectations and inflation.

The Senate rejected an amendment proposed by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) that would have cut spending by $1.5 trillion as the chamber considered legislation to secure the border and fulfill other parts of President Donald Trump’s agenda.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday on Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg Surveillance” that everything President Donald Trump was doing is “disinflationary.”

New data reveals Britain’s annual inflation rate spiked more than expected last month with food prices and families suffering most. The unexpected rise adds pressure on Sir Keir Starmer’s left-wing Labour government which is also presiding over sluggish economic growth.

The New York Fed’s survey shows a lot of inflationary pressure in the factory sector.

During an interview with MSNBC on Monday, Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) stated that the Democratic Party is “having discussions about contentious issues, like what our policy should be on immigration, what we should do about inflation,” but any changes aren’t

WASHINGTON — U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins told Breitbart News late last week that President Donald Trump and his administration are keenly focused on lowering the price of eggs in the United States and prepared to take any and all actions needed to do so.

The National Institute of Statistics and Census of Argentina announced that the inflation rate during January was 2.2 percent.