Looking at the duration of Joe Biden’s presidency and using the standard measures for comparing inflation and wages, inflation has increased 19.3% since January 2021 while wages have risen 16.1%. When ...

Overall PCE inflation was 2.3% year over year as of August 2024, with core PCE inflation at 2.7%. After soaring to 6.5% in 2022 and 3.7% in 2023, PCE inflation should post an annual average of 2.4% in ...

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 ...

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An inflation swap is a contract where one party exchanges fixed cash flows for payments linked to an inflation index, such as the CPI, transferring inflation risk to the other party. What Is an ...