The United States announced new, higher tariff rates this year. Tariffs can affect supply chains, investment, and firms’ ...

Annual price rises help businesses to protect their profits in uncertain times – but could be driving inflation.

A range of tariffs on U.S. imports has been enacted or considered recently. Trade tariffs can potentially affect price inflation for consumption and investment goods. Estimates suggest that the impact ...

This paper explores the macroeconomic implications of lowering the inflation target in an Emerging Market such as South Africa using the IMF’s Global Integrated Monetary and Fiscal model (GIMF). Model ...

Wholesale prices were unchanged in June and showed only a mild effect from U.S. tariffs, adding to the growing view that trade wars won’t lead to a big surge in inflation. The flat reading in the ...

Many people were caught off guard when inflation surged in 2021 and 2022. And though things have cooled substantially since then, the impact was (and still is) painful for some. It’s hard to prepare ...

Inflation — it’s a word you hear frequently, but do you really understand what it means? The main effects of inflation are better interest rates for savings accounts and higher costs of living, but ...

There’s been good news on the retirement front. Fidelity recently reported that a record number of 401(k) accounts (485,000) on its platform held balances of $1 million or more as of the end of the ...

Inflation presents a formidable challenge to preserving wealth. This silent eroder of purchasing power can diminish the value of money stashed away in savings accounts. Below I’ll discuss how ...

In rural India, retail prices slipped into deflationary zone with the NSO reporting a 0.25 per cent drop in the CPI (Rural), ...

As Election Day draws near, one issue continues to be at the forefront of voters’ minds — inflation. While the effects of inflation are tangible and painful, the causes remain abstract and confusing ...