The Federal Reserve’s annual inflation target is 2%, since this is the number most likely to keep prices stable and ensure U.S. consumers can make sound financial decisions. But the ideal inflation ...

A new study finds confidence crumbling among middle-income Americans as higher prices strain family budgets. Only a small ...

The Federal Reserve has battled a variety of economic troubles over the past 35 years. Between tech busts, a financial crisis ...

In 2020, the Federal Reserve (the Fed) responded to an acute recession by cutting interest rates and launching large-scale asset purchases to support credit and stimulate demand. Then, inflation in ...

What is interesting, though, is that this behavior of nominal rates obscures what is really happening ‘under the hood’ so to ...

The numbers: Wholesale prices posted the biggest drop in April since the pandemic in 2020, but economists say the decline in inflation appeared to be a one-off that might not be sustained if tariffs ...

In 2025, the Fed maintained steady rates for the first half of the year before implementing three consecutive rate cuts to ...