From housing to food to health care, everything is getting more expensive while wages stay mostly stagnant. It’s part of a phenomenon called inflation and it has a direct impact on each of us. As the ...

The cost of nearly everything is noticeably higher than it should be, and inflation is the most obvious at the grocery store. Everything from produce to snacks has seemingly skyrocketed in price the ...

What causes inflation? Economists have some ideas — namely, when demand broadly outstrips supply and prices rise. It turns out, the general public doesn’t always see eye-to-eye with economists on why ...

The Federal Reserve reports inflation is down, though it continues to remain above its 2% target level. The most recent report showed inflation was hovering around 3.5% (year-to-year), from a high of ...

What is inflation? Officially, it’s the change in average consumer prices over a period — a number that has, in recent months, been easing down toward the US Federal Reserve’s 2% target. But for many ...

There is a disconnect between seemingly solid economic numbers and the way people feel about this economy. Voters clearly were upset about the cost of living and that helped elect Donald Trump to a ...