As the U.S. hurtles toward a presidential election this fall, the nation’s inflation rate has quietly returned to normal, even as it continues to worry voters and draw focus at campaign events.

For as long as inflation has been high economists have fought about where it came from and what must be done to bring it down. Since central bankers have raised interest rates and headline ...

this week for the Federal Reserve’s most important economic policy event of the year, officials have seemed to “draw a line in the sand” on inflation, as there are reasons to believe that ...

But yes, inflation should absolutely be factored into your plans. When you begin to draw down from your pension, you start converting your long-term investment into income. If inflation spikes ...

However, this doesn’t impact the annual inflation rate the BLS reported, which remains at 3.4%. That’s a significant improvement from the end of 2022, when prices were increasing by 6.5% on an ...