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.

If you’ve been paying even passing attention to inflation—and it has been hard to ignore—you know that the latest inflation readings have been ugly. Through August 2022, the Consumer Price Index ...

Supply-chain disruptions, pandemic unpredictability, and war have sent inflation to levels not seen since the early 1980s. Higher prices for essentials like food, housing, and gas are making life more ...

After a delay due to the government shutdown that began on Oct. 1, Social Security announced its most anticipated change of ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Peter Westfall is a distinguished professor ...

A new bill wants to change the Social Security COLA formula from CPI-W to CPI-E. Learn what this means and how it could ...

A retiree using the 4% rule to guide withdrawals would have taken out $60,000 from a $1.5 million portfolio in the year 2000. By 2020, that withdrawal amount would have been right around $100,000. The ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of ...

User-Created Clip July 5, 2013 2012-02-10T09:20:51-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/1f1/20120210092141001.jpgBarry Bosworth and Michael Horrigan talks about how ...

For only the third time in 40 years, the Social Security Administration (SSA) announced this month that there will be no cost-of-living-adjustments (COLAs) for seniors in 2016. How can it be, when we ...