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.

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President Obama's controversial budget proposal uses a formula called "chained CPI." Here's what you need to know about how it's calculated, and how it may affect you. And you thought the term ...

January’s consumer price index report, released Tuesday, was a bit of a mixed bag. Prices were up 6.4% since the same time last year, making January the seventh straight month of cooling ...