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Fixing Inflation Policy Starts With Fixing Measurement

The debate over how far to cut interest rates while inflation remains above target has pushed inflation measurement back to ...

CPI rose at 2.7% annual rate in December as inflation remains sticky

So-called core inflation, or CPI data that excludes volatile food and energy prices, rose by 2.6% over the past 12 months, ...

Inflation hasn’t gone away. CPI likely to show sticky prices and delay next Fed interest-rate cut

The December U.S. jobs report was just good enough to persuade investors the Federal Reserve won’t cut interest rates again ...
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Inflation: Key Measures to Understand

Inflation and the EconomyInflation is one of the most important and frequently discussed economic topics. Economists, ...

US inflation - it's stronger than it looks

While the U.S. CPI inflation report on Tuesday showed a slightly softer-than-expected annual increase in core prices, there's ...

Prices rose 2.7% in 2025 as inflation stalked the economy

The report shows that inflation continued to trend down in 2025, after exploding to the highest rates in decades in 2021 and ...