David Lavie is a writer and editor with two decades' experience in marketing communications, equity research and publishing. He is a founding partner in Quartet Communications, where, as Head of ...

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

President Obama's controversial budget proposal uses a formula called "chained CPI." Here's what you need to know about how it's calculated, and how it may affect you. And you thought the term ...

Social Security's annual COLA calculations are under scrutiny from advocacy groups, with some calling for different metrics to be used to boost or reduce the inflation adjustments.