Inflation is finally cooling after a bruising stretch of price spikes, and on the surface that sounds like unqualified good news. Yet history suggests that when inflation plunges quickly, it can be a ...

Consumer prices rose 6.5% last month compared to a year ago, extending a monthslong slowdown of price hikes and bolstering hopes that the U.S. can avert a recession. Year-over-year inflation has ...

Economists see slightly slower U.S. inflation this year after the U.S. and China reached a temporary trade agreement, which also helped reduce odds of a recession in the near term. Forecasters in the ...

The Fed's view is that tariff inflation is temporary, and the August CPI is unlikely to change this view, given the weak August labor market report, with muted wage growth. In fact, the August CPI ...

Growing up during the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, only to graduate into a pandemic and now face inflation and housing instability, Gen Z is hyper-aware that a recession could be around the ...

The first six months of 2025 reflected a decline in actual salary increases over predictions in many countries around the world, remaining lower than the previous year but higher than averages over ...

Effective leaders around the world are recalibrating their approaches to 2026 salary planning in response to a shifting economic landscape and inflation.

The US-China trade deal delays an imminent recession, possibly into the end of 2025, or early 2026, although there are other policies that could cause a recession. Inflation data still do not show any ...

Katherine Watt is a former CNET Money writer focusing on mortgages, home equity and banking. She previously wrote about personal finance for NextAdvisor. Based in New York, Katherine graduated summa ...