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The Higher Education Price Index (HEPI) is a measure of the inflation rate applicable to United States higher education.HEPI measures the average relative level in the prices of a fixed market basket of goods and services typically purchased by colleges and universities through current-fund educational and general expenditures, excluding expenditures for research.
The California Association of Realtors predicts the median home price in the state will go up 6.2% next year to $860,300. This year’s average is $810,000, down 1.5% from 2022. This year’s ...
As the most widely used measure of inflation, the CPI is an indicator of the effectiveness of government fiscal and monetary policy, especially for inflation-targeting monetary policy by the Federal Reserve. Now however, the Federal Reserve System targets the personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index instead of CPI as a measure of ...
The U.S. Census Bureau found that if housing costs were taken out, inflation at the end of 2023 would have been 1.8% instead of 3.2%. [51] Reuters noted how shelter costs or 'shelter inflation' surged during the pandemic. [52] Artificial scarcity in the supply of housing, due to NIMBYism, has been a significant factor in making housing more ...
The most recent consumer price index (CPI) report puts inflation at 4.98%, a welcome decline from the absolutely crazy highs seen in 2022, but still well above the 3.28% long-term historical ...
US consumer prices rose 3.4% annually to close out 2023, capping a year of substantial progress on efforts to rein in decades-high inflation. America’s final inflation report for 2023 just came ...
Economic forecasting is the process of making predictions about the economy. Forecasts can be carried out at a high level of aggregation—for example for GDP, inflation, unemployment or the fiscal deficit—or at a more disaggregated level, for specific sectors of the economy or even specific firms.
People crowd the front of a Gray's Papaya hot dog and fruit juice restaurant in New York on Nov. 23, 2023. Confidence is growing among Federal Reserve officials and many economists that high ...