The United States still has an inflation problem: Prices have risen 3 percent in the past year, according to the latest data. It’s not the kind of hair-on-fire situation that Americans experienced in ...

After the consumer price inflation data came out, KPMG Chief Economist Diane Swonk said the Federal Reserve is now playing whack-a-mole with inflation. She’s right to worry. The headline number might ...

An $830-a-month car payment. Auto insurance for $280 each month. Thousands more for tire and maintenance repairs. For almost three years, those bills have followed Davine Greene, a nursing student who ...

As oil flirts with $100 again, investors are falling back on a familiar script: higher crude, higher inflation. That reaction is not wrong. Higher crude oil (CL=F, BZ=F) raises the odds of higher ...