Social Security's COLAs are based on CPI-W inflation, which understates the importance of housing and medical expenses from the perspective of retirees. The housing and medical care components of ...

If you apply the Core CPI to the CD-vs.-inflation equation, the best CDs are still comfortably ahead but not as much as when compared to standard CPI. The inflation rate that should matter most to ...

Ask Tom Crave what’s keeping him up at night and the answer is clear: inflation. “The cost of goods, fertilizer this coming spring, seed, machinery, parts, repairs — everything is going up ...