The consumer price index, the best-known measure of U.S. inflation, climbed to 2.7% over the 12-month span that ended in ...
Her new book: Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy traces ... This was praised by its supporters as “big democracy in action” - although it feels more like “Big Brother ...
Instead, a big push came from food (up 0.4% ... Despite the sticker shock on staples, grocery price inflation (at 1.6% annually) is still running below the overall CPI rate.
Although inflation is mostly accepted by cosmologists as part of the Big Bang picture based on some evidence (though there is meaningful dissent), the driver of inflation is still unknown.