The slight drop last month in the overall rate of inflation to 2.5% was driven by changes in the cost of transport, household ...

Falls in the cost of petrol and air fares in May were offset by a record rate of inflation for chocolate and jumps in the price of everyday items such as coffee and cheese. The average price of ...

Anticipation of incoming president Trump’s tariffs has caused confusion regarding high prices and high inflation. They are not really the same. The effect of tariffs is to push prices up, but not to ...

During the worst of the pandemic, prices started rising everywhere. Groceries, cars (both new and used), gasoline, housing. At one point, inflation reached 9.1%, the highest level since 1981, although ...

The price of eggs and other staples gets a lot of attention lately but a more insidious phenomenon, "shrinkflation," is also leading consumers to pay more for less, often without even noticing. What ...

The cost of Thanksgiving dinner has fallen for the second year in a row. But it's still higher than in 2019 thanks to inflation, the American Farm Bureau Federation found. It shows how shoppers are ...

When President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, it set off worries that economic data might not be as trustworthy in the future. The president claimed, without citing evidence, ...