Inflation Indicators: Consumer Price Index (CPI)
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Inflation Indicators: Consumer Price Index (CPI)

Intuition Publishing
Updated Sep 24, 2020

Few people will miss a significant increase in the price of everyday goods and services. As such, measures of price inflation are widely monitored by governments, economists, finance professionals, and consumers. The CPI is an index that measures the change in inflation. Here we examine the CPI and explore how it's commonly used.