inflation
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These retailers are aggressively courting better-off customers at the same time that their traditional customers are cutting back due to inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
Consumer spending was up 2.5% in February from a year earlier when adjusted for inflation, according to the latest Commerce Department numbers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
March consumer prices rose 3.3% from a year earlier, with core inflation at 2.6%.
From Barron's • Apr. 17, 2026
Hopes of an end to the war, or at least the temporary ceasefire, have eased fears of runaway inflation, lowered market expectations of Bank rate rises, so have led to lower swap rates.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
Adjusting for inflation, these figures reflect a tripling of justice expenditures since 1982.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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