Price rises slowed last month across a range of everyday groceries, including cheese, pasta and breakfast cereals, which helped the UK’s overall rate of inflation drop to its lowest level since May.

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 ...

Other items that saw an acceleration of inflation in December were women’s clothes; fridges and freezers; mineral water; and ...

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, ...