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This template calculates inflation based on several inflation index data sets. Note that 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 ...
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]
This sub-template returns the associated country's CPI for a specific year. It is used by {{Inflation/US}} for calculating the inflation rate between two given years, which in turn is used by {{}} to calculate inflated values.
Despite the Federal Reserve's efforts to bring the inflation rate below 2%, the annual inflation rate for the past 12 months remains above that threshold at 3.4%, according to the latest report ...
Inflation in the U.S. has finally started to show signs of cooling, though it still remains at fairly high levels across the country as the January Consumer Price Index (CPI) data came in at 6.4% ...
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 ...
As of August, the inflation rate in Atlanta stands at 1.7%, which clocks in nearly a percentage point lower than the national average and is the lowest pace for any of the swing-state cities ...
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