David Lavie is a writer and editor with two decades' experience in marketing communications, equity research and publishing. He is a founding partner in Quartet Communications, where, as Head of ...

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the latest inflation report, based on the U.S. Department of Labor's ...

The CPI is closely watched as an economic indicator to measure inflation. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who compensate us when you take ...

Fortunately for Social Security recipients, there is no such thing as a negative COLA. Even if the cost of goods and services ...

J.B. Maverick is an active trader, commodity futures broker, and stock market analyst 17+ years of experience, in addition to 10+ years of experience as a finance writer and book editor.

CPI shows softer-than-expected price rises, easing stagflation concerns. Key inflation drivers were shelter & insurance. Click for my review of the data.

The research series offers the best possible approximation of what the CPI would have been if the new method had been used before, based on the available data. In this series, the indices for gas and ...