The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Center for Microeconomic Data today released the May 2025 Survey of Consumer Expectations, which shows that households’ inflation expectations declined at the short-, medium-, and longer-term horizons. Consumers’ recent pessimism about the labor market eased somewhat, while consumer debt delinquency expectations and expectations about one’s household financial situation improved slightly. The main findings from the May 2025 Survey are: Inflation • Median inflation expectations decreased at all three horizons in May. One-year-ahead inflation expectations declined by 0.4 ... (full story)