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Annual inflation increased to 8.3% in August 2022, in part due to rising grocery prices. [154] In September, the Fed increased the interest for a fifth time in the year reaching a 14-year high. [155] In November 2022, the year-over-year inflation rate was 7.1%, the lowest it has been since December 2021 but still much higher than average. [156]
However, from December 1982 through December 2011, the all-items CPI-E rose at an annual average rate of 3.1 percent, compared with increases of 2.9 percent for both the CPI-U and CPI-W. [28] This suggests that the elderly have been losing purchasing power at the rate of roughly 0.2 (=3.1–2.9) percentage points per year.
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2020-Present. While inflation has since fallen, the COVID-19 pandemic shocked the economy and contributed to a 2022 8% inflation rate that was the highest since the 1980s. 2020: 1.2%. 2021: 4.7% ...
Still, for the past six months, core inflation has declined to a 2.3% annual rate, down from 2.5% in August. And economists still expect the Fed to cut its key rate by a quarter-point when it ...
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased 2.5% over the prior year in August, a deceleration compared to July's 2.9% annual gain in prices and the lowest annual rate since early 2021. The yearly ...
CPI-U starting from 1913; Source: U.S. Department Of Labor Annual inflation (and deflation), 1914–2007. In the US, CPI figures are prepared monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor. The CPI-U includes expenditures by all urban consumers.
On an annual basis, PPI rose 1.3% for the 12 months ended in October, down from a 2.2% yearly increase in September. Economists expected PPI to inch up 0.1% from September and rise 1.9% from last ...