Foods including pizza, quiche, breakfast cereal and crisps all saw an acceleration of inflation last month.

Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics head. In Argentina, the government manipulated the inflation rate. Economists went rogue to calculate the real rate, and people lost trust in the numbers.

While the UK’s headline rate of inflation was unchanged in August, this masked a jump in prices for a range of everyday groceries, including cheese, fish and fruit juices, together with a rise in the ...

When President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, it set off worries that economic data might not be as trustworthy in the future. The president claimed, without citing evidence, ...