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2. 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 ...

3. 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 ...

4. United States Consumer Price Index - Wikipedia

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   The annual percent change in the US Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers is one of the most common metrics for price inflation in the United States. The United States Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a family of various consumer price indices published monthly by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The most commonly used ...

5. 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 ...

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. Boskin Commission - Wikipedia

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   The Boskin Commission, formally called the "Advisory Commission to Study the Consumer Price Index", was appointed by the United States Senate in 1995 to study possible bias in the computation of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), which is used to measure inflation in the United States. Its final report, titled "Toward A More Accurate Measure Of ...

8. Inflation has cooled off dramatically since last summer, but ...

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   By one measure, the U.S. economy is already close to slaying the price inflation that has bedeviled it for the better part of two years. Inflation has cooled off dramatically since last summer ...

9. Chained dollars - Wikipedia

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   Chained dollars, also known as "chained consumer price index" or "chained CPI," is a measure of inflation that takes into account changes in consumer behavior in response to changes in prices. It is used to adjust certain economic variables, such as tax brackets and Social Security payments, for inflation.