The FT global inflation and interest rates tracker provides a regularly updated visual narrative of consumer price inflation and central bank policy rates around the world. Some content could not ...

The U.S. Federal Reserve uses inflation data to help guide its interest rate policy. It raised rates to their highest level in 23 years during the Covid-19 pandemic era, pushing up borrowing costs ...

the last period of extreme inflation in the world’s major economies, as liberal governments were replaced by conservative ones and vice versa. The X post above shows a Financial Times chart that ...

While inflation has cooled since 2022, the CPI rose 3.3% from May 2023 to May 2024. Not all prices rise at the same rate, with some sectors of the economy seeing minimal inflation or even falling ...

that shorter-term inflation rate has since tumbled to 0%, meaning overall prices in December were about the same as they were in September. The following chart shows how the year-over-year change ...

Importantly, he doesn't believe we need inflation to heat up to a 2% pace for the Fed to start tightening monetary policy with interest rate hikes. That's the takeaway from the Fed's vice chairman ...

The consumer price index rose by 2.4% in September 2024 on an annual basis, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Inflation declined amid a pullback in gasoline prices and moderation in ...