Macroeconomics studies an overall economy or market system, its behaviors, the factors that drive it, and how to improve its performance.

By two measures — the inflation rate and the Federal Reserve’s target for "price stability" — the statement is inaccurate.

Going into the latest Fed meeting, bond markets were already predicting inflation would average 2.4% a year over the next five years, well above the Fed’s 2% target. After the meeting and Powell’s ...

Inflation isn’t a four-letter word, but the way that everyone from economists to TV pundits to politicians talks about it, it might as well be. Even if you don’t know exactly how inflation works, ...

A bipartisan bill offered Monday by Senate Banking Committee member Katie Britt, R-Ala., and Andy Kim, D-N.J., would force ...

The Fed's view is that tariff inflation is temporary, and the August CPI is unlikely to change this view, given the weak August labor market report, with muted wage growth. In fact, the August CPI ...

July’s Consumer Price Index report showed an acceleration in “core” prices that strip out volatile food and energy items. 10 Inflation 8 6 +3.1% excluding A key measure of underlying inflation rose in ...