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.

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.

January’s consumer price index report, released Tuesday, was a bit of a mixed bag. Prices were up 6.4% since the same time last year, making January the seventh straight month of cooling ...