price index
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Inflation, as measured by the Fed’s favored personal-consumption-expenditure price index, was running at a 3.6% annual rate in September.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
The personal-consumption expenditures price index rose 3.6% in September, accelerating from August’s 3.4% gain and compared with a 3.7% consensus expectation from The Wall Street Journal’s poll.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
August’s year-over-year personal-consumption expenditures price index — which omits food and energy prices — showed inflation at 3%, while headline reached 3.4%, both considerably higher than the Federal Reserve’s stated 2% target.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
Statistics Canada’s industrial product price index increased 2% in September from the month before and jumped 14.5% compared with a year earlier, a 24th consecutive annual increase.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Fifty thousand pounds in modern money, using a retail price index, but £725,000 in modern money using an average wage multiplier.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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