consumer price index

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The current rate of inflation is 2.4%, based on the consumer price index.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 27, 2026

Proponents of indexing typically cite the consumer price index, but that’s only one of numerous inflation measures the government calculates.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

The House also replaced its traditional Seattle consumer price index with a slower-growing national CPI.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

An editor who shall remain nameless told me today that no one seemed to care about the latest consumer price index print—that it was stale data in the wake of rising oil prices.

From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026

The Boskin Commission con�cluded in 1996 that the consumer price index overstates the actual rise in the cost of living by a percentage point a year.

From Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy by Colignatus, Thomas