Halloween costumes and displays have been in stores since summer, giving families more time to shop and more pressure to ...

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

Measured year-over year, September’s core CPI was up by 3.0 percent, and has been above three percent for three months.

It depends on what metric you use. The most basic overall measure of inflation is steady, or even up a little bit, depending on the time frame. But an inflation measure that excludes volatile food and ...