Slowing but healthy US job growth, combined with rising inflation expectations, supports the Federal Reserve’s inclination to ...

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 ...

In remarks that suggest she is in no hurry to cut interest rates, Federal Reserve Governor Adriana Kugler on Friday said she ...

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 ...

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

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

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, ...