The Federal Reserve’s annual inflation target is 2%, since this is the number most likely to keep prices stable and ensure U.S. consumers can make sound financial decisions. But the ideal inflation ...

U.S. inflation slowed to 2.7% in 2025, the lowest since 2020, as the Fed cut rates and tariffs added costs to some household ...

Those measures include the closely watched Employment Cost Index, which tracks pay changes for the same set of jobs over time, making it a useful way to see how wages are rising relative to inflation, ...

In 2025, the Fed maintained steady rates for the first half of the year before implementing three consecutive rate cuts to ...

In 2020, the Federal Reserve (the Fed) responded to an acute recession by cutting interest rates and launching large-scale asset purchases to support credit and stimulate demand. Then, inflation in ...

In an article I wrote in October 2024, titled Milton Warned Us... Inflation Is Far From Dead, I argued that the official Consumer Price Index (CPI) understates true inflation and that gold serves as a ...