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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

The proposed chained CPI faces plenty opposition. So it may never come to pass, which would be welcome news to retirees who collectively derive 70% of their income from Social Security.

Based on projections, retirees should prepare for a larger increase than in 2025, but it still may not be good enough.

Apollo Academy has warned that the quality of the highly scrutinized CPI data is continuing to deteriorate. Read more here.

CPI manipulation isn't an investor's biggest concern. Watch this economic indicator instead. Provided by Dow Jones Aug 12, 2025, 6:28:00 AM ...

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 ...