New White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s first official day on the job was marked by mockery as conservatives on Twitter slammed her for failing to handle a question on inflation. On ...

Wage growth is finally outrunning inflation, and that shift is quietly rewiring the outlook for the United States economy.

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump’s rapidly evolving trade war threatens to resurrect an all-too-familiar question for the Federal Reserve: If inflation moves higher, will it be transitory?

From stubbornly high living costs to a softer labor market, economists say these are the forces that will shape the year ...