Policymakers cling to a 1970s consumer-price index formula that overstates cost increases and drives up automatic spending.
After a long drought of government economic releases, we finally got a key update last week: the Consumer Price Index (CPI) ...
The Consumer Price Index “is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services,” according to the Bureau of Labor ...
The Social Security Administration looks at year-over-year changes to the CPI-W. It does this specifically for data from the third quarter of the year (the months of July, August, and September). The ...
While we won't know the exact percentage until Friday, Oct. 24, an advocacy group for seniors has set its final prediction ...
The report shows food items like instant coffee and beef are getting pricier. Instant coffee prices in September were about ...
M/M vs. 0.4% consensus and +0.4% in August, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday. The ...
Inflation last month rose at an annual rate of 3%, coming in below economists' forecasts as the impact of President Trump's ...