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Consumer Price Index
A Consumer Price Indexes (CPI) or Retail price index is a price index[?] which tracks the prices of a specified set of consumer goods and services, providing a measure of inflation.
In the U.S. CPI figures are prepared monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor.
- Consumer Price Index webpage (http://www.bls.gov/cpi/home.htm)
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