President Trump vowed on the campaign trail to lower inflation. WSJ asked a former Federal Reserve vice chair to break down the president’s available inflation-fighting tools. Photo Illustration ...

Chart: The Economist What is going on? Consumer expectations reflect two main factors: current inflation and petrol prices. Indeed, in normal times, about 80% of variation in quarterly one-year ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the latest consumer price data show that while the central bank has made substantial progress toward taming inflation, there is still more work to do.

Inflation has risen a surprising amount - to the highest in nearly a year - official figures show. This means prices are rising even more than at any time since last March, according to data from ...

Economists had been expecting the pace of inflation to slow in January. The news isn’t good for anyone concerned. It means inflation remains above the Federal Reserve’s long-run target of 2% ...

Diana Robinson Photography / Getty Images Housing costs aren't rising as fast as in recent years, providing some optimism about the direction of inflation despite prices for some other things ...

In a normal country, this sort of high inflation would be unsustainable. But Russia is not a normal country. Chart: The Economist The latest bout of inflation is the product of both external and ...

(Never mind that the driver was an American-born citizen.) And on Wednesday, as if on cue, the president wrote “BIDEN INFLATION UP!” in a social media post. The “Biden inflation” he’s ...

India’s retail inflation, based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI), for January stood at 4.31 per cent. (Image/Reuters) India’s retail inflation, based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI), for ...

Not money as in cash, but the supply of money, the price of money as measured by interest rates, and their impact on inflation? The answer would appear to be no after Mr. Trump called for lower ...

President Trump is seeking to distance himself from a rise in inflation, arguing the uptick had “nothing to do” with his return to the Oval Office. Trump instead placed the blame on former ...