Tag: Inflation

Metro Detroit inflation spike second highest in nation

Washington Examiner · April 14, 2023 12:11 pm

White House hails falling inflation as PPI reaches 2.7%

Haisten Willis · April 13, 2023 4:06 pm

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Thursday, April 6, 2023, in Washington.

White House pushes back on Fed staff’s recession prediction

Zach Halaschak · April 13, 2023 3:00 pm

FILE-In this Wednesday, May 9, 2012, file photo, David Lee holds on to his carts while shopping at a Costco Wholesale in Portland, Ore. A steep drop in gasoline costs drove down a measure of U.S. wholesale prices in May by the most since July 2009. But outside the food and energy categories, prices increased moderately. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Inflation plummets to 2.7% in March in producer price index

Zach Halaschak · April 13, 2023 12:31 pm

FILE - In this Friday, July 12, 2013, file photo, shoppers peruse the aisles at a Wal-Mart in Bristol, Pa. Americans increased their spending at an annual rate of just 1.8 percent in the April-June quarter, down from a 2.3 percent rate in the January-March period. Consumer spending is expected to improve in the second half of the year. But most economists foresee only a slight acceleration to an annual rate of 2 percent to 2.5 percent. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Why the drop in March inflation isn’t quite the ‘progress’ touted by Biden

Joseph Lawler · April 12, 2023 7:50 pm

Beltway Confidential

Will Biden’s foreign policy undo all the Federal Reserve’s progress on disinflation?

Tiana Lowe Doescher · April 12, 2023 7:21 pm

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference at the Federal Reserve Board building in Washington, Wednesday, July 27, 2022.

Fed staff predicts recession this year

Zach Halaschak · April 12, 2023 5:03 pm

Biden celebrates as inflation falls to 5% in March

Haisten Willis · April 12, 2023 2:43 pm

Inflation dropped to 5% in year ending in March, lowest since spring 2021

Joseph Lawler · April 12, 2023 12:31 pm

Understanding Bitcoin requires a proper frame of reference.

Beltway Confidential

Oh, bitcoin isn’t a hedge against inflation?

Tiana Lowe Doescher · April 11, 2023 8:22 pm

Inflation’s bill on Uncle Sam comes due

Beltway Confidential

Inflation’s bill on Uncle Sam comes due

Tiana Lowe Doescher · April 11, 2023 1:34 pm

Beltway Confidential

Actions Congress should take to restore fiscal sanity

Eric Maus · April 11, 2023 6:00 am