President Donald Trump is threatening steep tariffs on virtually all imports. Here’s what that means and what economics ...

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Welfare measurement is among the most fundamental questions in economics. Policymakers and others use gross domestic product ...

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By VANESSA GERA Ivan Hansen, a retired Danish police officer, loaded up his basket at the supermarket, carefully checking each product to avoid buying anything made in the United States. No more ...

Items added and removed from the basket of goods used to calculate inflation give an insight into current fashions.

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NIGERIA recently rebased its consumer price index (CPI) from 2009 to 2024, leading to a significant drop in the reported ...

President Trump's tariffs on goods ... basket, by 0.81 percent to 1.63 percent," a Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta study states. The Peterson Institute for International Economics states that ...

Rising egg prices are a reminder of our economic anxiety. The rise in egg prices unnerves consumers and makes us question the ...