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  2. United States Consumer Price Index - Wikipedia

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    For example, the BLS has stated that changes made due to the introduction of the geometric mean formula to account for product substitution (one of the Boskin recommended changes) have lowered the measured rate of inflation by less than 0.3% per year, and the methods now used are commonly employed in the CPIs of developed nations. [38]

  3. Which items has inflation impacted the most? - AOL

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    At its peak, food inflation was even higher than overall inflation, with an annual rate of 11.4% in August 2022. Energy price inflation peaked at an astonishing 41.6% just two months prior in June ...

  4. In-Depth: Some examples of inflation at its highest in 30 years

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    The national consumer price index rose 6.2 percent from October 2020 to October 2021. That's the largest 12-month increase since 1990, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

  5. List of economic expansions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Inflation remained stubbornly high, and would soon rise to double digits despite stagnating growth, a phenomenon that came to be known as stagflation. Mar 1975– Jan 1980 58 +3.6% +4.3%: Following the steep recession between 1973 and 1975, an expansion occurred through the remainder of the decade. Inflation remained high during this period and ...

  6. Consumer price index - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Examples of where inflation eased or accelerated in September

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    Examples where inflation has eased, ranked by the size of the change: Passenger travel by air: August up 11.9%, September down 5.0% Olive oil: Aug up 40.8%, Sep up 33.0%

  8. Inflation - Wikipedia

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    Inflation can lead to massive demonstrations and revolutions. For example, inflation and in particular food inflation is considered one of the main reasons that caused the 2010–2011 Tunisian revolution [112] and the 2011 Egyptian revolution, [113] according to many observers including Robert Zoellick, [114] president of the World Bank.

  9. US consumer price increases accelerated last month with ...

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    Inflation has fallen sharply since it peaked at 7% in mid-2022, according to the Fed's preferred measure. Yet yearly core inflation has fluctuated between 2.6% and 2.8% since February.