When it comes to monetary policy, the Federal Reserve has just two jobs, and it's failing at both of them. The Fed has a dual mandate to promote ma...

Much has been written recently about the potential adoption of a "chained consumer price index" as the official measure of inflation and cost of living increases for the purposes of calculating government benefits, boundaries between tax brackets, and so on.

As people in Washington resume their pursuit of freaking out the populace with threats to plunge over the "fiscal cliff" -– the package of spending ...

The Federal Reserve has been mis-measuring inflation for years. And there's a compelling case that its mis-measurement led, albeit indirectly, to the housing boom and bust, and therefore to the 2008 recession.

NEW YORK -- Gas prices fell in June, but prices for nearly everything else rose, according to figures released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistic...

Consumer prices fell slightly more than expected in June to post their biggest drop in a year on weak gasoline costs, but underlying inflation pre...

Core consumer inflation rose at quickest pace in nearly three years in May and a regional manufacturing gauge contracted this month, underscoring ...

The classic safe-haven investment has seen a strong uptrend in value since the autumn of 2008. Various factors have been credited as drivers of this move, but what is the risk gold could lose its luster?

April is full of economic activity: finally we're out of the winter doldrums and it's just before many people follow the old adage to "sell in May and go away."

The government's inflation statistics are by no means alarming. The CPI in October posted an 0.2% reading, or up 1.2% year over year. Still, there's no escaping the fact that practically everybody is inundating us with higher prices.

Here at Martenson Central, we are endlessly keeping a close eye out for the emergence of deflation, defined here as the purchasing power of the dollar going up.

The value of coffee has increased fifteen times from its price 234 years ago. This is a similar increase to the value of the dollar, based on the purc...

A policy that makes fortunes for commodity traders, for hedge fund operators, for the gold and silver crowd while squeezing 90% of the nation is a terrible price to pay for replacing deflation with inflation.

WASHINGTON — A rise in the cost of gas drove consumer prices up last month by the most in nearly a year, but overall inflation remained tame. T...

The market has had the biggest six month rally since the 1930s and stocks cannot go up forever. We can't time the sell-off, but we can prepare for one of its likely causes: inflation.