Last year, the vice president made prices a central theme of the GOP election campaign. Now that eggs cost more than ever, he ...

Donald Trump is president because, in the broadest possible sense, voters were unhappy with the direction of the country and ...

The tariffs are real, and they are spectacularly foolish. If you were setting out to design a trade policy that would harm ...

Since the 2014–15 school year, the cost of attending a public four-year university has fallen by 21 percent, before adjusting for inflation, according to College Board data analyzed by Judith ...

But as The Atlantic’s Yasmin Tayag wrote last month ... It’s the equivalent of “two years’ worth of fresh-food inflation in one fell swoop.” And that 2.9 percent increase is an average ...

Russia has inflation at rates approaching 20 percent (officially, they are about 9 percent), and it has been sucking its own sovereign wealth fund dry. But Ukraine is poor, too, and has man-power ...

In March 2022, the Federal Reserve began raising interest rates to tame inflation, and the business world adopted the nearly unanimous consensus that a recession was around the corner. Many ...

In that same time, average housing prices more than doubled, even after adjusting for inflation, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. The housing shortage traces back to the postwar ...

The average price of a dozen eggs in the 1940s was roughly 42 cents. With inflation, that’s $7.50 today. Even at record-high prices, eggs are cheaper today because farmers have changed both the ...