Finance & economics | Core of the matter
America still has an inflation problem
Markets reel from the latest figures
|Washington, DC
Editor’s note (September 14th 2022): This story has been updated to include markets’ reaction.
This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline “Core of the matter”
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