July inflation data emphasized that tariff-related price pressures are still with us, in addition to some heat in the services sector—making the road to Fed cuts a bit bumpier.

August 14, 2025 - Chris Zaccarelli, chief investment officer for Northlight Asset Management, said the "large spike" in PPI "shows inflation is coursing through the economy, even if it hasn't been felt by consumers yet.

August 12, 2025 - Rent prices have remained hotter than most economists and Fed officials originally expected. Lags could be one reason, as leases and housing agreements take longer to roll over from the previous year. Another could simply be because homes and mortgage rates have stayed pricey, keeping more renters on the sidelines than usual. Inflation hasn’t just made the prices of key household essentials more expensive — but the costs of vacations and travel, too.

April 11, 2024 - Inflation remains the stickiest of problems for the U.S. economy, with the March consumer price index coming in hotter than expected — the third straight month that prices have accelerated.

Most economists still expect inflation to rise over the course of the summer. And with a barrage of new, so-called reciprocal levies and an eye-popping 50 percent tariff on copper set to take effect on Aug.

June 20, 2025 - In physical cosmology, warm inflation is one of two dynamical realizations of cosmological inflation. The other is the standard scenario, sometimes called cold inflation. In warm inflation radiation production occurs concurrently with inflationary expansion. This is consistent with the conditions ...

March 21, 2024 - In our empirical results we find upward pressures on food and headline inflation from higher-than-normal temperatures, especially when occurring in hot months and countries. This implies short-term rises in inflation from exceptionally hot periods ...

April 11, 2024 - Inflation is running hot and the Federal Reserve may not be cutting rates as much as expected, which could cause near-term trouble for the stock and bond market.

They argue that accounting for inflation, which started to surge in 2021 amid COVID-19, wages were actually lower than would have been expected on the basis of pre-pandemic trends.

So changes in the aggregate price level can be traced back to changes in the price levels of the underlying components. As described in a recent Economic Synopses essay, we have developed a “heat map” that visually represents CPI data in FRED: specifically, the relative inflation levels of ...

July 28, 2025 - Whether inflation ultimately settles closer to two or three percent, it’s clear that the ultra-low inflation environment of the previous 20 years is behind us. While the worst of the recent spike may be over, it’s still too soon to declare victory.

April 10, 2024 - Inflation ticked up again in March compared with the year before — in yet another sign that the economy doesn’t need high interest rates to come down any time soon.

February 12, 2025 - Consumer prices rose 0.5% from December — the fastest pace since August 2023 — resulting in an annual inflation rate of 3% for the 12 months that ended in January, according to the latest Consumer Price Index data released Wednesday by the ...

April 22, 2024 - While interest rate cuts appear to be on hold due to the recent mix of strong economic data and hot inflation reports, the ESR Group continues to forecast slowing employment and economic growth, as well as progress toward 2-percent inflation over its forecast horizon.

August 15, 2025 - The Producer Price Index increased 0.9% in July on a month-over-month basis, well above economists' expectations, a report from the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics showed on Thursday. Trade services inflation, a measure of retail and wholesale margins, rose 2%...

November 6, 2024 - A recent survey from Bankrate reported that more than 40 percent of Americans say their No. 1 economic issue for this presidential election is inflation. Read on to learn more about the drivers of U.S. inflation.

March 28, 2025 - "It looks like a 'wait-and-see' Fed still has more waiting to do," said Ellen Zentner, chief economic strategist at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. "Today's higher-than-expected inflation reading wasn't exceptionally hot, but it isn't going to speed up the Fed's timeline for cutting interest rates, especially given the uncertainty surrounding tariffs."

It’s no secret that inflation has been running hot. Central banks around the globe began hiking interest rates in an effort to bring it down. Even though most measures have shown that inflation is cooling, SEI believes expectations for future inflation may still be too low.

October 23, 2019 - When I give talks, and I tell people, ‘Well the average inflation rate has been about two percent a year,’ I will always get hands to go up during the QA to say that I bought this or I bought that, and it’s much more expensive than it was last year by more than two percent.”

Inflation Rate in the United States increased to 3 percent in September from 2.90 percent in August of 2025. This page provides - United States Inflation Rate - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.