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The Federal Reserve signals more to come even as it slows rate increases.

Federal Reserve officials on Wednesday slowed their campaign to cool the economy but indicated that interest rates would rise higher in 2023 than previously...

Relief Eludes Many Renters as Fed Raises Interest Rates

Already, new home construction has dropped sharply as borrowing costs climb, declining 14.4 percent in May to the lowest rate in more than a...

Strong Wage and Jobs Growth Keeps Fed on Track for Big Rate Increase

A surprisingly robust June employment report reinforced that America’s labor market remains historically strong even as recession warnings reach a fever pitch. But that...

The Fed Raises Interest Rates by 0.75 Percentage Points to Tackle Inflation

The Federal Reserve took its most aggressive step yet to try to tame rapid and persistent inflation, raising interest rates by three-quarters of a...

Why Has the CPI Inflation Calculation Changed Over Time?

Consumer prices are increasing at the fastest clip in about 40 years, climbing 8.3 percent in April compared with a year earlier.As popular anger...

How Do Higher Interest Rates Bring Down Inflation?

This kind of communication was less common 30 years ago. But a series of Fed chairs — Alan Greenspan, Ben S. Bernanke and Janet...

Inflation Complicates Return to Office Plans

A recent analysis from Square, the technology company, quantified the “lunchflation” that workers like Ms. Jacobson were facing. The average price of wraps last...

Inflation Hits Fastest Pace Since 1981, at 8.5% Through March

Inflation hit 8.5 percent in the United States last month, the fastest 12-month pace since 1981, as a surge in gasoline prices tied to...

Bond Market Unsettled by Inflation Worries

At one point this month, for instance, the S&P 500 had fallen more than 10 percent, into the range known in market jargon as...

Inflation Rises to 7.9 Percent for February 2022

Prices climbed at the fastest pace in decades in the month leading up to the war in Ukraine, underlining the high stakes facing the...

Car Prices Rose More Slowly In January, But New Disruptions Loom

Want an optimistic take on the troubling January inflation report? Look at what’s happening with cars.Want a pessimistic take? Look at what’s happening with...

CPI December 2021: Inflation Jumped at Fastest Pace Since 1982

Inflation climbed to its highest level in 40 years at the end of 2021, a troubling development for President Biden and economic policymakers as...

PCE Index Hit Highest Level in November Since 1982

Whether the 2021 price burst teaches households to expect higher inflation going forward is critically important. From the Fed’s perspective, there is a risk...

What Causes Inflation and Should I Worry About It?

In the longer term, the (sometimes contested) theory goes, high inflation can become entrenched if workers begin to expect it and can successfully negotiate...

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