Ben Casselman

Nearly every category of product costs more than it would have had prepandemic trends continued. And many product prices are still rising faster than they were before.

Employers added 162,000 jobs in August, and the unemployment rate held steady at 4.1 percent. But wage growth is not keeping up with rising inflation.

The 2026 revisions by the Bureau of Labor Statistics represent a downward adjustment of just 0.1 percent of the total work force.

The Personal Consumption Expenditure index, the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation tracker, held steady in July.

After roughly two decades of ultralow interest rates, a period of rapid readjustment is ahead for the United States, the world’s largest economy and most important financial system.

When prices spiked in 2021-22, wages failed to keep up for many workers, new research shows. Now the pattern is repeating.

Investment in artificial intelligence and related companies is lifting the stock market and spending across the economy.

The Consumer Price Index fell to a 3.5 percent annual increase in June, and prices marked their biggest drop from a month earlier since 2020.

Nearly 200 economists signed a letter calling for policymakers to do more to understand and respond to potential A.I. disruptions.

Employers added fewer jobs in June than a month earlier but the unemployment rate ticked down, a decent showing for the U.S. economy.