Stagflation combines slowing economic growth, high unemployment, and inflation. This is how it's caused, it could affect you, and how you can prepare for it.

China is grappling with deflation. The U.S. and Japan, meanwhile, are struggling to keep 3%-range inflation from becoming the new normal. But as 2026 approaches, might stagflation become the real ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Steve Vernon, FSA, helps retirees make their money last for life. Red warning lights are flashing that the U.S. might be entering ...

“Stagflation is basically the worst of all worlds,” an expert told ABC News. For months, sky-high prices have pummeled the budgets of everyday Americans. But many have offset the damage, at least in ...

With inflation rising and hiring slowing, a dreaded word is back in the conversation: “stagflation.” Widely seen as a nightmare economic scenario, it’s the rare double blow of rising prices and weak ...

(Reuters) -Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Austan Goolsbee on Monday said that with unemployment near 4% and inflation around 2.5% and falling, he sees no possibility that tariffs or another ...

Fears of U.S. stagflation are spreading through global markets, pushing some investors to reshuffle portfolios to limit the damage that tariffs could deal to growth and prices. A BofA Global Research ...

A new economic term has entered the social media stage. “Stagflation” is a term coined by the combination of stagnation and inflation, a duo of economic forces coming to a head. According to Alan Gin, ...

Some economists are cautioning that President Trump's sweeping new tariffs on U.S. trade partners, which took effect Thursday, increase the risks that the U.S. economy could enter a period of ...

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon cautioned that it’s possible that the United States could fall into a period of stagflation, as reported by CNN. Stagflation is a situation where an economy experiences ...

Today is jobs data day, but we will not get jobs data today from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, because the party in control of the government shut it down. But we still got some vital economic data ...

Inflation and unemployment claims both higher with today’s data, a bad combination. The Federal Reserve’s dual mandate of stable prices and the lowest unemployment consistent with that inflation goal ...