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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.
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 ...
The Boskin Report, "Final Report of the Advisory Commission to Study the Consumer Price Index" Gordon, Robert J. (June 2000). "The Boskin Commission Report and its Aftermath". NBER Working Paper No. 7759. doi: 10.3386/w7759. "Commercial Knowledge On Innovation Economics, A Report". As quality change is a required component of innovation ...
Recent reporting by Bloomberg Intelligence suggests that home insurance, if included, would increase consumer inflation by more than half a percentage point than the current CPI rate of 2.5%. Experian
US consumer price inflation surged 9.1 percent over the past 12 months to June, the fastest increase since November 1981, according to government data released on July 13.
10-year fixed rate — 5.72%. 5/1 ... influenced an already cautious Fed to skip cutting the rate earlier. The consumer price index released on August 14 showed consumer prices rose 2.9% year over ...
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 ...
Inflation is still a thing. Prices were 2.6% higher in October than a year earlier, according to the latest Consumer Price Index, released Wednesday. That's a much lower inflation rate than ...