dailymarkets.com - 10/16/2009
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The Consumer Price Index, or CPI rose 0.2% in September, down from a 0.4% increase in August and down 1.3% from a year ago. If food and energy prices are stripped out to get to core inflation, prices also rose 0.2%, up from 0.1% in August. Core inflation is up 1.5% from a year ago. On a ...
econbrowser.com - 10/21/2009
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econbrowser.com —
Does high unemployment mean that there's nothing to
worry about in terms of inflation? Since I'll be...
trying to answer this question quantitatively using some equations, I'll begin with some notation. Let u t denote the unemployment rate as of the ...
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Unemployment and inflation
247wallst.com - 10/15/2009
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247wallst.com —
We have just gotten the Labor Department’s measure
of retail inflation measured by the Consumer Price Index....
The September reading still has inflation running tame, and many will be watching for more of the Producer Price Index data as a result ...
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What Inflation?
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... Fed officials have kept the federal funds rate (the rate that banks charge each other) at an all-time low of 0% to 0.25% since December. While most believe that the recession has now ended, the Fed isn’t expected to begin raising rates until late in 2010, and perhaps not until 2011, to avoid disrupting a ...
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