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Consumer Price Index

Data shows drug prices spiked seven percent last year

by Dan Gorenstein
Oct 18, 2016
While consumer spending grew 1.5 percent last year, drug prices rose dramatically.
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Inflation is only mostly dead

by Kai Ryssdal
Aug 16, 2016
There's a big difference.
Bye boy, have fun trying to raise the consumer price index!
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Why the CPI doesn't figure in the Fed's calculations

by Tim Fitzsimons
May 22, 2015
Consumer prices ticked up just a 10th of a percent last month, the Labor Department reports.
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