The consumer price index jumped 4.2% in May versus a year earlier, its highest level in more than three years, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Gasoline and other energy prices surged ...

Warsh has said that inflation is a "choice." The same could also be true of how inflation is measured.

High gas prices pushed annual inflation to the highest level in three years, according to May data released by the Commerce ...

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The latest inflation numbers aren’t especially encouraging for Warsh. He's a fan of so‑called trimmed‑mean inflation, which ...

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NASDAQ suffered a sell-off as traders focused on rising geopolitical tensions and prepared for the release of Oracle's earnings report. Dow Jones declined towards the psychologically important 50,000 ...

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The consumer price index rose 2.4% in February from a year earlier, unchanged from January, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That's still slightly above policymakers' long-term inflation ...