Right now, confronted by both the tariff and Middle East shocks, investors are trying to ascertain their effects on the real economy. The sharp initial sell-off triggered by Donald Trump’s “liberation ...

Together, those three economic adversaries — slowing growth ... All of that highlights the stickier nature of inflation. In 1973, for example, consumer prices rose by an average 3.3 percent.

From 2025 to 2035, debt swells as increases in mandatory spending and interest costs outpace growth in revenues. Federal debt ...

When the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) imposed an oil embargo on the United States in 1973 ... economic research at Fitch Ratings, told Barron’s. If a stagflation crisis ...

Last witnessed in the US in the 1970s after the oil crises of 1973 and 1979, stagflation is caused by a combination of high inflation, slow economic growth and a rapid rise in unemployment.