As Americans rein it in, the numbers will likely show a contracting economy for a few quarters, but the country won't feel the pain of previous 21st-century downturns.

Americans have been dealing with rapid inflation for two years, but what’s driving the price increases has evolved. The data shows that the painful inflation that arose from pandemic disruptions ...

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But they are going to keep interest rates high until they are convinced inflation is finished as a threat to the economy. ... CPI big picture: Inflation mini-surge may be fading, ...

Making things worse, that 3.4 percent built off of the two previous years of extremely high inflation. In this case, it’s not hard to figure out what caused prices to jump.

Brace for a "mini stagflation" scenario where sticky inflation eats away at US economic growth, Goldman Sachs' COO said. "That's not going to be called a recession, but it's not going to feel ...

In France and Holland, inflation hit 4% by the end of the century. In Russia the inflationary trend picked up from the 1530s. The global rate of inflation peaked in the 1590s at close to 3% a year.