Consumer inflation expectations jumped amid Trump tariff threats, the University of Michigan consumer sentiment index showed on Friday. That followed a January jobs report which was, on balance, on ...

The central bank needs to see further progress on inflation or weakness in the labor market to resume interest rate cuts.

U.S. inflation increased by the most in eight months in December amid robust consumer spending on goods and services, ...

Economists like me rely on data from federal data collection agencies like the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the ...

US labor cost growth cooled in the fourth quarter from a year earlier, reassuring Federal Reserve policymakers wage pressures ...

Rising food and housing costs have hit the lowest-income Americans the hardest in recent years.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell appears confident in the US labor market. But that means any signs of a slowdown could ...

Measuring key aspects of a nation’s economy is important, but the metrics used are often misunderstood by many. Quantifying ...

“The Fed’s prognosis is for a slower pace of monetary easing moving forward, as the economy is doing well and prices are only slowly returning to target in an environment of great uncertainty,” said ...

How much has rising inflation since 2020 cost you? While Iowans need to spend more to maintain their standard of living, ...