Today, the U.S. Department of Labor released the consumer price index (CPI) for November, and inflation hit a 39-year high. Wall Street analysts and economists had generally expected to show the ...

The earliest Q3 of Chained CPI data we have is for the year 2000. So the first COLA we can calculate would be for 2002 based on the change from Q3 2000 to Q3 2001. Here is a table showing the actual ...

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In Better to Bank with Cyprus Than the United States? we wrote, "In 1996 the government began measuring inflation differently, lowering the reported number significantly." For financial planners, ...