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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.

(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 ...

President Nixon tried to cure stagflation by increasing government spending to fight the 1970 recession and imposing wage and price controls in 1971. However, the problem was not really “cured” until ...

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 ...

A rear view of a concerned businessman as he places his hand on his head and looks up the word inflation on a chart and a one dollar bill in front of him. Stagflation is a word that has been mentioned ...

President Trump’s trade war is likely to lead to higher prices and slower growth, a challenging combination for the Fed. War in the Middle East could make the job harder still. By Ben Casselman The ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The jump in oil prices following Israel's strikes on Iran could exacerbate U.S. stagflationary conditions if they persist, according to Apollo Global Management. "According to the Fed’s model of the ...