The winter holidays typically make for busier times at The Open Door Pantry food shelf here in this Twin Cities suburb. And sure enough, on the Monday before Christmas, the day’s food appointments ...

“Inflation is tumbling, while employment is near a 50-year high.” - CBS 60 Minutes (Feb 4, 2024) “What I can say is that inflation has come down over the past year, and really sharply over the past ...

US consumer prices rose 3.4% annually to close out 2023, capping a year of substantial progress on efforts to rein in painfully high inflation. The Consumer Price Index, which measures the average ...

Inflation around the world reached multi-decade highs last year. While headline inflation is coming down steadily, core measures―which exclude food and energy―are proving stickier in many economies ...

Inflation, bank failures, strikes, and artificial intelligence provided some of the biggest stories and trends of 2023. It was a year defined by inflation, bank failures, historic strike actions and ...

This paper identifies over 100 inflation shock episodes in 56 countries since the 1970s, including over 60 episodes linked to the 1973–79 oil crises. We document that only in 60 percent of the ...