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2. What is the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and why is it useful?

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   The CPI looks at how the prices for a basket of goods and services changes over time to measure how prices are changing.The CPI is the most widely cited measure of inflation and is used by ...

3. United States Consumer Price Index - Wikipedia

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   Core CPI (blue) is less volatile than the full CPI-U (red), shown here as the annual percentage change, 1983–2021. A Core CPI index is a CPI that excludes goods with high price volatility, typically food and energy, so as to gauge a more underlying, widespread, or fundamental inflation that affects broader sets of items. More specifically ...

4. United States Chained Consumer Price Index - Wikipedia

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   The United States Chained Consumer Price Index (C-CPI-U), also known as chain-weighted CPI or chain-linked CPI is a time series measure of price levels of consumer goods and services created by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as an alternative to the US Consumer Price Index. It is based on the idea that when prices of different goods change at ...

5. 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 ...

6. Inflation and the Consumer Price Index: How They Work ... - AOL

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   Rising prices have been the big economic story of post-vaccine America, and inflation has evolved from a nagging nuisance to the most severe decline in the dollar's buying power in more than 30 ...

7. Walmart swears it’s not introducing surge pricing - AOL

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   Digital shelf labels will lessen the burden of updating prices on 120,000 items at Walmart stores. Walmart is replacing its price labels with digital screens—but the company swears it won’t ...

8. Cost-of-living index - Wikipedia

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   A cost-of-living index is a conceptual measurement goal, however, not a straightforward alternative to the CPI. A cost-of-living index would measure changes over time in the amount that consumers need to spend to reach a certain utility level or standard of living. Both the CPI and a cost-of-living index would reflect changes in the prices of ...

9. Core CPI rises less than forecast as inflation pressures ease ...

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   The CPI increased 2.9% over the prior year in December, an uptick from November's 2.7% annual gain in prices. The yearly increase matched economist expectations. The yearly increase matched ...