That skepticism is playing itself out in the current inflation debate. Since peaking at 9.1 ... as the controversial “sticky price” or core measure, used by both CPI and PCE, which excludes ...

A surprisingly controversial debate broke out in recent days when ... If you’d used a 6-month measure of inflation to define the current trend then you’d have been more worried about ...

This measure is almost back down to prepandemic ... But while inflation may or may not be cooling off sufficiently, the inflation debate seems to have gotten substantially cooler.

Whether higher inflation is ultimately transitory or more persistent is a debate that’s far from over. What is important is that the outlook remains uncertain, and risks appear tilted to the upside.

Moving beyond semantics, the nub of the debate today is whether recent ... that are part of the Fed’s preferred “core” measure of inflation, he finds that nearly three-quarters have ...

Inflation that is no longer transitory and continues to advance is considered “sticky.” It’s a phenomenon characterized by ongoing increases in consumer prices and wages. When sticky ...

On Tuesday, the Brookings Institution held a special symposium on inflation, which I unfortunately couldn't attend. But I read the two papers presented and some of the subsequent commentary, and ...

It isn’t merely a dream: Measure U.S. price changes the way Europe does, and inflation was already there in May—and dropped further in June. Measure them as the U.S. does, and on Wednesday new ...

Donald Trump's agenda includes a range of policies that could create new inflation pressures in the years ahead. The emerging debate among economists is exactly what those price effects would be ...

Each month the Melbourne Institute surveys Australians about how much inflation they expect. At the start of October, the weighted mean of responses (the measure that ignores answers of greater than 5 ...

New data reveals where inflation is hurting consumers most. Discover which goods and services are seeing the biggest price ...