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A number of factors, including a lack of significant gains in auto prices, are masking the extent of the shift.
Inflation peak: After a string of 40-year highs, will inflation slow down? Some economists think so. Food prices are going up: Here are items predicted to cost a whole lot more at grocery stores ...
The independence of central banks, which allows policymakers to operate free from political meddling, is considered ...
Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Analytics, joins WSJ’s Take On the Week podcast to explain how recent politics is ...
Despite the surge in inflation in December, many economists are looking for the rate of price increases to ease beginning mid-this year. "December’s increase to 7.0% ...
In 1996, economist Robert Shiller administered a survey about inflation and its effects to 677 people—both economists and non-economists—in the U.S., Brazil, and Germany. Here’s part of the ...