Gas influences how a lot of things cost – but there are other factors behind rising prices.

Prices may be coming down and houses are on the market longer, but many potential buyers have given up.

Fresh consumer price index data pretty much guarantees a big interest rate hike when the Federal Reserve meets next week.

The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index ticked up in August, but only slightly.

In July, the cost of food at grocery stores was up 13% annually. An Oregon nonprofit is serving nearly twice as many clients as before the pandemic.

More people are going out to eat, but some are frustrated with the rising cost. Yet the cost crunch is just as bad, or worse, for restaurant owners.

Families are generally planning to spend almost $20 more per child on school supplies.

Rising costs and slower-growing incomes cut small town households’ discretionary income by 38% in the last year, pressuring a way of life.

The homelessness crisis is being punctuated in the nation’s most populous city by sky-high rents and rising prices, says the CEO of the Bowery Mission, a New York City-based nonprofit.

The U.S. is seeing some moderation in energy and food prices. That’s not case overseas.