Predicting future mortgage rates trends is a difficult task for economists, especially when U.S. fiscal policy remains unpredictable.

Inflation is down since its peak during the pandemic, but the feeling of sticker shock still lingers. Planet Money looks into why feelings about prices diverge so much from official inflation data.

Mortgage interest rates have been declining this September, but will they continue to fall later this fall, too?

There's belief from some economists that inflation's peaked, and it's all downhill from here. It reached 3 percent in the ...

She said other factors should convince the Bank of Canada that inflation pressures have let off some steam, including a ...

The central bank confronts “no risk-free path” in balancing the risks of a sharp slowdown in the labor market and resurgent ...

The White House says inflation is low and cool. Virtually every alternative calculation paints a less rosy picture.

It is hard to understate the importance of inflation in Americans’ concerns today. Not only is it almost always the top issue of concern for Americans in the polls, but people also think it is getting ...

Retirees are getting a Social Security raise in 2026. How will it compare to the benefits bump they got in 2025?

What they found was shocking: Trump’s tariffs didn’t just boost the price of imported goods — they made products produced domestically more expensive as well. On average, products produced in America ...