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In economics, inflation is a general increase in the prices of goods and services in an economy. When the general price level rises, each unit of currency buys fewer goods and services; consequently, inflation corresponds to a reduction in the purchasing power of money. wikipedia.org
- Federal Reserve policymakers evaluate changes in inflation by monitoring several different price indexes.
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- Consumer Price Index (CPI), produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), is the most widely used measure of inflation
- The Federal Reserve prefers to use the Personal Consumption Expenditures (the PCE price index) when gauging inflation and the overall economic stability of the United States
- Producer Price Index (PPI), which reports the price changes that affect domestic producers, is another measure of inflation
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- Cost-push inflation
- Demand-pull inflation
- The housing market
- Expansionary fiscal policy
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