Yet the consumer price index has grown at merely 1.5% for the past five years.
This morning it was reported that the consumer price index (CPI) was up 0.4% in January.
The Consumer Price Index is out on Tuesday, along with housing starts and industrial production.
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The Consumer Price Index for the first quarter in Japan was the highest in ten years.
What about measures of inflation, such as the Consumer Price Index, that are negative?
Today the Labor Department reported that the consumer price index (CPI) increased by 0.5% in July.
The National Bureau of Statistics announced that the consumer price index increased 3.3% last year.
That was a good bargain compared to an overall consumer price index that rose tenfold.
Health costs are outstripping inflation, increasing annually by three times that of the consumer price index.
The U.S. Labor Department said Wednesday that its Consumer Price Index rose 0.3% in September.
Homeowner equivalent rent is 25.2% of the input when they calculate the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
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The only major U.S. economic data due for release Friday is the consumer price index.
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From the end of 1929 until early 1933 the Consumer Price Index fell by 27%.
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However, analysts said that any reversal in interest rate policy would depend on consumer price growth.
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China reported its consumer price index rose 1.8% in July, from a year earlier.
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U.S. economic data due for release Friday includes the consumer price index and leading economic indicators.
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The monthly Producer Price Index follows on Tuesday, and Wednesday brings the Consumer Price Index.
Witness the screaming after a panel of economists suggested the consumer price index overstates inflation.
On Wednesday, we get Industrial Production, along with the Consumer Price Index and the Housing Index.
It may be necessary that we have to do some things with the consumer price index.
Also on Thursday, we get the Consumer Price Index, and of course jobless claims.
It is rare for lenders to lend below the rate of consumer price inflation.
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For one thing, the consumer price index has been signaling lower Chinese inflation in the months ahead.
The March consumer price index fell by 0.2%, with a drop in energy costs behind the move.
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Tightening labor markets, and rising global energy and food prices, pose a risk to consumer price stability.
And I think that that reflects, sometimes, a misunderstanding of what the consumer price index actually is.
The union wants wage increases tied to the Consumer Price Index, a federal government measure of inflation.
Despite rising wages, consumer price inflation is still falling: prices rose 1.4% in the year to March.
Since December, the Bank has been required to meet a 2% target for the Consumer Price Index.
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First, the rate of consumer price inflation including energy and food has accelerated into the mid single digits.
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