Yet the consumer price index has grown at merely 1.5% for the past five years.
For starters, the National Home Price Index already fell 2% in the third quarter of 2010.
Here I'm going to focus on -- it's measured using the GDP price index.
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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In addition, the producer-price index declined 0.6% in March, more than the 0.4% decline expected.
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.
The U.S. producer-price index, meanwhile, fell 0.6% in March from February, the Labor Department reported.
This new price index excludes food, energy, and everything that went up in price that month.
The core prices in the producer-price index, which measures the cost of finished goods, rose 0.1%.
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On Thursday, we have the jobless claims and Producer Price Index, followed by the FOMC announcement.
Year over year, the import price index gained 6.7%, short of the 8.2% expected by analysts.
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.
Adjustment using the higher biomedical price index yields 9-10 new drugs per billion dollars.
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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The advanced GDP price index is at its lowest level since the second quarter of 1998.
China reported its consumer price index rose 1.8% in July, from a year earlier.
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The producer price index, which measure wholesale inflation, has sagged over the past few months.
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.
Tuesday brings April housing starts and permits and the April Producer Price Index (PPI).
Witness the screaming after a panel of economists suggested the consumer price index overstates inflation.
We hope that we can soon revert to an official consumer-price index for Argentina.
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