California’s minimum wage inflation isn’t going to stop with the massive fast-food wage hike. Instead, it is going to grow worse year after year. Just four months after the state jacked up the ...

It has not been a pretty summer for consumers at California’s supermarkets. That’s what my trusty spreadsheet found when averaging slices of Consumer Price Indexes for three Golden State metro areas: ...

The pace of Southern California inflation rose slightly in July as trade tensions helped nudge the cost-of-living higher. My trusty spreadsheet reviewed the Consumer Price Indexes for Los Angeles and ...

Tenants in Southern California are not getting the same level of relief from rent increases as the average American. This insight comes from my trusty spreadsheet’s analysis of rent inflation data ...

New inflation stats confirm Southern California shoppers’ hunch — and fear — that the cost of living is heating up again. The recent release of regional Consumer Price Indexes for September – a rare ...

It has not been a pretty summer for consumers at California’s supermarkets. This summer’s pricing – June through August’s reports – shows that prices in the “food at home” category across those three ...