Inflation is a measure of how quickly prices are rising. Learn more about inflation and its impacts on your retirement with our guide.

Key Takeaways Inflation measures how quickly the prices of goods and services are rising. Inflation is classified into three types: demand-pull inflation, cost-push inflation, and built-in inflation.

As a result, today’s retirees need to spend significantly more than they did three years ago for the same types of goods and services. Before the recent spike in inflation, a retiree might have ...

The Atlanta Fed tracks two types of inflation: sticky and flexible. What they are telling us is that inflation has fallen dramatically on consumer-sensitive items—even dipping into negative ...

Inflation has caused costs to skyrocket for many Americans. But even as it cools, it's still threatening the value of your savings account.

But there’s another type of inflation that’s less visible, yet unnecessarily damaging: compliance inflation. Small businesses need to navigate a vast, complicated, and ever-growing web of ...

This type of long-term care insurance rider can help protect you against inflation, but there may be other options. Getty Images If you're in the market for long-term care insurance, you may be ...

The Fed faces a unique challenge as tariff policies threaten to trigger a new type of inflation that is less controllable than Covid-19.

Here lies the error, one of many, in using market prices as a proxy for what is always and everywhere a currency phenomenon.

Simulations using a Phillips curve-type relationship provide insights into the importance of demand versus supply for inflation over different periods. The decade of low inflation after the Great ...