If prices are instrumental in providing needed information to market participants, then inflation can be seen as introducing ...

Nearly six years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the underlying inflation process in advanced economies has fundamentally shifted, even as headline consumer price inflation has declined ...

News about inflation has been everywhere over the past few years. But even if you haven’t been watching TV or reading the financial press, you’ve no doubt felt some pain in your wallet as prices for ...

My friend Jared Bernstein calls our attention to the rebirth of the inflation hawks. Apparently, there is a new craze among economists to say that we are in a period of structurally higher inflation.

Inflation is a decrease in the purchasing power of money, reflected in a general increase in the prices of goods and services ...

Economists forecast the CPI to rise 0.2% in May after rising by the same amount in April. The goods data will be closely watched for early signs of tariff-driven inflation, with larger impacts ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Greg Licholai writes and teaches about innovation in healthcare. In 2022, the Biden Administration enacted the Inflation Reduction ...

This paper studies the macroeconomic consequences of undermining central bank independence through politically motivated transitions of central bank governors. Leveraging a new panel dataset covering ...