by Mike Duff | Aug 12, 2025 | Featured News, Retail Articles
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose in July with core goods, including general merchandise items, surpassing the overall CPI number as new market research indicated people across the United States are beginning to feel the impact of tariffs. A survey commissioned by...
by Mike Duff | Jul 15, 2025 | Retail Articles
As tariff effects began to work their way through the U.S. economy, inflation ticked upward in June on both a month-over-month and annual basis, generally and in the household sector. The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the Consumer Price Index...
by Mike Duff | Mar 4, 2024 | Featured News, Retail Articles
National Retail Federation chief economist Jack Kleinhenz said the pace of inflation and how the United States Federal Reserve responds to it will play a major role in the economy this year as markets watch for when the United States Federal Reserve might make...
by Mike Duff | Jan 4, 2023 | Retail Articles
The economy is at a critical juncture with recession a possibility, if not a certainty, National Retail Federation chief economist Jack Kleinhenz stated in the NRF Monthly Economic Review. The United States Federal Reserve’s efforts to reduce inflation may not trigger...
by Mike Duff | Dec 2, 2022 | Featured News, Retail Articles
Despite strong consumer spending, gross domestic product is unlikely to grow as much in the final months of 2022 as it did in the third quarter, National Retail Federation Chief Economist Jack Kleinhenz stated as part of NRF’s Monthly Economic Review, but he also...
