Policymakers cling to a 1970s consumer-price index formula that overstates cost increases and drives up automatic spending.

The inflation rate in Germany is expected to be +2.3% in October 2025. It is measured as the change in the consumer price ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves' painful tax raid on businesses has pushed inflation to an 18-month high. Prices have jumped by 4.2% ...

The current mortgage rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage rose by 2.00% in the last week to 6.31%, according to the Mortgage ...

Thirty-year mortgage rates fell to a one-year low today. The current average mortgage rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage is ...

Joanne Hsu, chief economist of the University of Michigan’s long-running consumer sentiment survey, says consumers are “still ...

The current average mortgage rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage is 6.15%, the same as a week earlier, according to the Mortgage ...

It seems the only constant in life is change. Let's take a look at why the 2026 COLA is both good and bad for Social Security ...

U.S. consumer confidence eased to a six-month low in October amid worries about the availability of jobs in the near-term, ...

The 2026 Social Security COLA will be higher than the 2.5% increase retirees received this year. However, 94% of older ...

Social Security's 2026 cost-of-living adjustment is 2.8%, but over time, a pattern has emerged in how the agency calculates ...