January 18, 2022
How does the expectation of high inflation become self-fulfilling, and what proxies do we have to reflect this inherently unobservable but important economic variable?
December 11, 2021
Inflation was 6.8% in November 2021. Whether it is likely to continue increasing depends on different factors that contribute to a generalized rise in prices.
November 12, 2021
Consumers are experiencing the highest annual grocery price increases in a decade and the highest annual restaurant price increases since the early 1980s.
October 24, 2021
Alberto Cavallo, a pioneer in gathering and using online micro-data, joins EconoFact Chats to discuss the major takeaways from his analysis of over a billion prices.
October 7, 2021
COVID supply disruptions, evident in product shortages at the retail level, were an important driver of inflation a year after the start of the crisis.
September 21, 2021
A look at how inflation is calculated, the factors that have contributed to the recent rise in inflation, and the dangers posed by high and ongoing inflation.
July 26, 2021
Jay Shambaugh of George Washington University joins Michael Klein to discuss the prospects for ongoing inflation, and the ways in which inflation affects your economic well-being.
December 18, 2019
Michael Klein, Executive Editor of EconoFact and Dan Sichel (Wellesley) highlight some of the problems with low inflation.
October 8, 2019
Inflation has averaged just over 1-1/2 percent over the past decade. With unemployment at historic lows, continued soft inflation poses a puzzle and a challenge.