In this final part of the series on the causes of inflation, Michael Roberts considers the period since the end of the ...

Inflation is one of the economy’s most important vital signs and one of the subtlest to measure. The CPI inflation rate—the 12-month change in the consumer-price index—gets most of the attention. But ...

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Would the detection of gravitational waves from just after the big bang finally prove your theory of cosmic inflation? If primordial gravitational waves were indeed detected by the BICEP2 telescope, ...

Inflation isn't a four-letter word, but the way that everyone from economists to TV pundits to politicians talks about it, it might as well be. Even if you don't know exactly how inflation works, ...

ALL may not be well with one of cosmology’s most prized theories. Last week two teams studying the “echo” of the big bang independently reported results that cannot be explained by the theory of ...