Inflation remained hot late in the summer. Here are the five things we learned from U.S. economic data released during the week ending September 16. Consumer prices—except for gasoline—rose in August. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) inched up a seasonally adjusted 0.1 percent. This was this second straight month of relatively little growth in the headline Bureau... Continue Reading →
Mixed Signals: August 15 – 19
Strength in retail and manufacturing counterbalanced weakness in the housing market, but other measures continued to wobble.
Prices Rose Everywhere: July 11 – 15
June’s inflation was broad-based.
