Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell recently warned that the United States was at risk of stagflation, a combination of high ...

Headline inflation rate has cooled from the cycle peak of 9.1% in June 2022 to 3.4% in April. Thawing inflation below the Federal Reserve's 2% upper ceiling is important for the Fed to reverse its ...

In “Lessons From the Great Inflation of 1973-81” (op-ed, Aug. 3), Phil Gramm and Mike Solon characterize the relationship between President Ronald Reagan and Federal Reserve Chairman Paul ...

Just 40%, mostly Democrats, said they are better off. "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" Ronald Reagan debating then-President Jimmy Carter, 1980.

His Economic Discomfort Index — which Ronald Reagan later renamed the Misery Index — was just the sum of the unemployment rate and the inflation rate. It was a crude measure, and arguably ...

Reaganomics saved us from inflation. Bidenomics brought it back. President Ronald Reagan addresses the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, April 24, 1986.

The tributes to President Jimmy Carter give him maximum credit for appointing Paul Volcker chair of the Federal Reserve, in August 1979. The horrendous stagflation of the period—three straight ...

Nationwide, college tuition has increased about three times as much as inflation since Ronald Reagan’s presidency ended in January 1989. For public and private universities, the average annual ...