Real GDP is often favored over nominal GDP as it accounts for the effects of inflation. Thus, if nominal GDP grew at 4% in a given year, but the inflation rate was 5%, it actually shrunk by 1% in ...

The relatively elevated real yields available in inflation-indexed Treasuries offer a partial antidote of certainty for anxious investors. Click to read.

Chart #8 shows the nominal and real (inflation-adjusted) level of capital goods orders. Capex spending is a good proxy for business investment in new plant and equipment, which in turn provides ...

If the inflation picture becomes clearer, and tariff inflation doesn’t materialise, Treasury investors will harvest that premium. For the longer term, however, it would be dangerous to plan on real ...

Unfortunately, big supply shocks, including tariffs, can temporarily affect the inflation rate, and it is difficult to distinguish between supply shocks and demand shocks in real time.To overcome this ...

During periods of high inflation, such as the 1979 episode, a large portion of TRE growth was eroded by a loss of purchasing power. This is reflected by the fact that growth in nominal wages did not ...

Real wages under collective-bargaining agreements in the euro zone thus dropped by 5.2% last year as inflation hit. But since then wage agreements have ticked up.

June real wages -1.6%, 15th month of decrease on inflation Nominal wages +2.3%, lower than May's +2.3% Real wage growth won't turn positive until April 2024 - analyst ...