The Producer Price Index (PPI) is the official measure of producer prices within the U.S. economy. It measures the average change in selling prices for goods received by manufactures. The Producer ...

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a key barometer of inflation, used to determine the annual cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security benefits and to adjust federal income tax brackets. Private ...

Sign displaying gas prices at a station in Morningside Heights, New York, in January 2022. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images) After many years of historically low inflation, consumer prices in the ...

The Consumer Price Index “is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services,” according to the Bureau of Labor ...

The CPI tracks the prices of hundreds of consumer goods and services across the U.S., providing information on how much they are increasing or decreasing over time. When costs rise rapidly and incomes ...

INFLATION HAS DOGGED societies for centuries. Attempts to measure it properly began in earnest in the 20th century. In 1914 the British government calculated a “working-class cost of living index” to ...

Rising inflation has inundated headlines over the past year, with prices hitting record highs. The latest Consumer Price Index figure, released by the Labor Department last week, showed that annual ...

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