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This template defaults to calculating the inflation of Consumer Price Index values: staples, workers' rent, small service bills (doctor's costs, train tickets). For inflating capital expenses, government expenses, or the personal wealth and expenditure of the rich, the US-GDP or UK-GDP indexes should be used, which calculate inflation based on the gross domestic product (GDP) for the United ...
Freddie Mac reports an average 6.93% for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, up 2 basis points from last week's average 6.91%, according to its weekly Prime Mortgage Market Survey of nationwide lenders ...
However, from December 1982 through December 2011, the all-items CPI-E rose at an annual average rate of 3.1 percent, compared with increases of 2.9 percent for both the CPI-U and CPI-W. [28] This suggests that the elderly have been losing purchasing power at the rate of roughly 0.2 (=3.1–2.9) percentage points per year.
The 2025 COLA is the lowest since 2021 and down from 3.2% this year, mainly because of the nation’s falling inflation rate. Over the last decade, the COLA increase has averaged about 2.6% ...
The percent increase then becomes the COLA in the following year. For instance, the CPI-W increased 2.5% in the third quarter of 2024, which means Social Security benefits will get a 2.5% COLA in ...
A CPI is a statistical estimate constructed using the prices of a sample of representative items whose prices are collected periodically. Sub-indices and sub-sub-indices can be computed for different categories and sub-categories of goods and services, which are combined to produce the overall index with weights reflecting their shares in the total of the consumer expenditures covered by the ...
TSCL updated its 2025 COLA prediction based on August's CPI-W data, which came in at 2.5%. TSCL’s projection decreased from 2.57%, when July's CPI-W came in at 2.9%. According to The Senior ...
I’m not going back and recalculating the CPI. All I’m doing is going back to the government’s estimates of what the effect would be and using that as an add factor to the reported statistics. By 2021, the cumulative estimates of ShadowStats imply an average annual inflation rate of 9% for a cumulative increase in prices of over 600% since ...