Policymakers cling to a 1970s consumer-price index formula that overstates cost increases and drives up automatic spending.

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Annual inflation rose less than expected in September, according to a crucial report published Friday, nine days later than normal due to the government shutdown. Consumer prices rose 3.0% in ...

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Since the shutdown began, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has not been gathering the new data it needs to produce future reports, since its staff is furloughed. By Ben Casselman and Tony Romm The ...

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"When we came in, it was ‘egg-flation, egg-flation, egg-flation,’" Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Oct. 26 on NBC’s ...

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This would normally be the most-exciting week of the year for Social Security recipients, but the federal government shutdown had other plans. The last puzzle piece needed to calculate Social Security ...

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Inflation is expected to increase to its highest level for 21 months as more pressure piles on the Chancellor and the Bank of England. Economists have predicted Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation ...

Social Security's COLA announcement must be published by Nov. 1. Some furloughed government workers will return to work to produce a key inflation report for September, allowing for the calculation of ...