Toby Walters is a financial writer, investor, and lifelong learner. He has a passion for analyzing economic and financial data and sharing it with others. The real value of an item is its nominal ...

The Consumer Price Index inflation measure accounts for housing costs in a complicated way. There are reasons for it. Credit...Matt Chase Supported by By Jeanna Smialek There’s a three-letter ...

Those were the thoughts of Houston Chronicle and Express-News columnist Chris Tomlinson in his commentary “Managing inflation, migration, disasters,” (SA Inc., Nov. 17.) While the second point is ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about economics, markets and policymaking throughout Asia. If ever there were an economic example of the dog that caught ...