The Consumer Price Index is the official measure of inflation - here's what the CPI does and doesn't measure, how it's ...

Inflation held at 3.8% in August, remaining at July’s 18-month high level, as measured by the Consumer Prices Index (CPI). Inflation has been rising for most of this year and is now significantly ...

No. People generally pay more attention to a much broader measure of inflation, the CPI-U index, which covers all urban consumers. That covers 93% of the total U.S. population. The CPI-W, meanwhile, ...

Inflation ticked higher in May but was more stable than expected as the early effects of President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging tariffs were offset by another drop in gasoline prices. Rent inflation, a ...

This post offers a framework for thinking about the effect of tariffs on major asset class returns by estimating asset classes’ response to supply shocks. This blog uses a Phillips curve approach to ...