Consumers tell us their budgets are being stretched,” CEO Brian Cornell said during a recent earnings call. “They’re becoming ...

One problem with the CPI that's been identified by economists, and which the Bureau of Labor Statistics freely admits, is that the index does not factor in the effects of substitution. The ...

If you receive Social Security retirement benefits, more money should be coming your way this month. In October, the Social ...

A mixed February CPI report was probably the last thing investors ... jumped by the most in five months. That's a problem, because while "sticky" inflation has been a sticking point for the ...

Op-ed views and opinions expressed are solely those of the author. The Bureau of Labor Statistics just released the monthly increase in the Consumer Price Index for […] ...

To correct the problem of over-indexation, members of both parties have proposed utilizing a more accurate measure of inflation, switching price-indexed provisions throughout the federal budget from ...

The problem isn’t so dramatic in CPI at the headline index level, because the main sources of volatility in the index also happen to be the ones that provide all of the seasonal adjustments ...

The problem isn’t so dramatic in CPI at the headline index level, because the main sources of volatility in the index also happen to be the ones that provide all of the seasonal adjustments, so we ...