For decades, economists and central bankers have relied more on the Core Consumer Price Index than the headline CPI. Click to ...

Learn about the Social Security COLA projection for 2026, including what it is, how it's calculated and what it means for ...

In past blogs, we have opined that we saw deflation coming because of the long lag in the rent data used by BLS in the CPI calculation. The chart below shows various inflation indexes through May.

Another metric — homeowners’ insurance — is not included in CPI calculations, though it does account for a related category called “tenants’ and household insurance” as part of the ...

When the core CPI methodology is modified to include how the Europeans calculate inflation, on an apples to apples basis, the Year over Year trend in the U.S., at 1.9%, is already below [the Fed ...

The Consumer Price Index climbed 3.2% in the year through July, the first acceleration in 13 months. But that figure requires a closer examination. Inflation soared in June 2022 and was slightly ...

Investor concerns about manipulation of the consumer-price index may be exaggerated. Such concerns have grown since President Donald Trump fired the director of the Bureau of Labor Statistics ...

US inflation is leaving those sky-high days behind: Consumer prices in May rose at the slowest annual pace since March 2021, according to data released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

CPI inflation slows with a 0.1% rise in May, boosting stocks and treasuries. Click here to learn how tariffs and future CPI trends could affect markets.

The insurance price calculations in the CPI index tend to produce more volatile price swings than the PCE index, as one example.

Labor costs, new calculations could drive health care inflation higher The cost of health insurance in the Consumer Price Index dropped by nearly 30% for the 12 months ending in July. However ...