Inflation in the United States is now at the center of a political and pocketbook tug-of-war. The White House says prices are rising at roughly 2.5%, a figure officials present as proof that the worst ...

Kevin Hassett, director of the White House’s National Economic Council, insists that despite five months of rising prices, inflation is actually “way down.” But polls and recent election results ...

The year-over-year inflation rate in January, the month President Donald Trump returned to the White House, was 3.0%. The year-over-year inflation rate in September, the most recent month for which ...