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4 lut 2022 · U.S. consumer price inflation was 7.1 percent from December 2020 to December 2021, compared with 6.6 percent in Houston (Chart 6). Several components stand out as contributors to overall inflation, including motor fuel, new and used vehicles, and food and beverage prices.
As the most widely used measure of inflation, the CPI is an indicator of the effectiveness of government fiscal and monetary policy, especially for inflation-targeting monetary policy by the Federal Reserve.
28 wrz 2021 · August’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) for Houston continued to pick up steam. The annualized pace of inflation since February 2020 rose to 2.9 percent from 2.5 percent in June (Chart 7). This longer view avoids distortions caused by comparing the present to the unusual circumstances of the pandemic.
15 lip 2024 · This paper examines the drivers of fluctuations in global inflation, defined as a common factor across monthly headline consumer price index (CPI) inflation in G7 countries, over the past half-century.
11 wrz 2024 · Prices in the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land area, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), increased 0.6 percent for the two months ending in August 2024, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.
In recent months, inflation has climbed to levels not seen in a generation. The Fed's preferred measure of inflation, the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price index, increased to 4.4 percent in September 2021 compared to the same month the previous year.
23 gru 2022 · In 2021, inflation began rising sharply in many parts of the world, and in 2022 the U.S. saw its worst inflation in decades. What causes inflation? There is no one answer, but like so much of...