This inflation calculator uses the change in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) from 1913 to 2025 to estimate the U.S. dollar's buying power and future value.

Toby Walters is a financial writer, investor, and lifelong learner. He has a passion for analyzing economic and financial data and sharing it with others. The real value of an item is its nominal ...

If prices rise by 10%, the purchasing power of ordinary people decreases by 10%. This is because more money is needed to buy ...

Those were the thoughts of Houston Chronicle and Express-News columnist Chris Tomlinson in his commentary “Managing inflation, migration, disasters,” (SA Inc., Nov. 17.) While the second point is ...

Learn in plain language how inflation affects the stock market, changes stock prices, company profits, and investment returns ...

Inflation—you know it, and you definitely don’t like it. According to Americans polled in a Pew Research Center report last year, it is the nation’s top problem. Frustration with inflation is mutual ...