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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co., Jamie Dimon, addressed the issues surrounding huge deficits, inflationary factors, and geopolitical risk in the U.S. economy while talking to Bloomberg ...

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, ...

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 ...