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Uncertainties give businesses lots of reasons to at least postpone investment decisions. On the persistence of inflation I am not so sure. The reason the inflation of the 1970s persisted was not just ...

The disconnect between healthy unemployment numbers and miserable consumer sentiment remains a striking feature of today’s economy, DoubleLine CEO Jeffrey Gundlach told attendees at a webcast ...

In his May 2025 quarterly announcement, Federal Reserve (Fed) chair Jerome Powell warned of the rising risk of stagflation, a dreaded combination of high inflation and unemployment. Mainstream ...

The average American family will pay about $2,500 more this year because of tariffs. But unlike inflation, your wages won’t rise to compensate. That’s because tariffs work differently than inflation.

Gold prices extended their extraordinary gains, with bullion prices surpassing their inflation-adjusted record set more than 4 decades ago. Spot gold prices rose 0.1% on the session to $3,656.40 an ...

Retirees on Social Security receive a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in most years. COLAs help to ensure benefits don’t lose buying power due to inflation. Seniors received some impressive COLAs in ...