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...primary U.S. inflation signal flared brightly last week. Propelled largely by the fast-rising cost of food and gasoline, the Consumer Price Index increased 0.6% in January, which would amount to a worrisome 7.2% if it were to continue through the year. That marked the strongest monthly inflationary surge since January 1987, when prices jumped 0.7%. But the rate then slowed to a modest...
...called the CPI report "disturbing" because it suggested that the U.S. economy was close to overheating despite the Fed's eleven-month effort to slow it down by subtly tightening the credit supply. Noting that last week's report followed January's startling 1% rise in the Wholesale Price Index, a leap of 12.7% on a compounded annual basis, Greenspan warned, "If inflation re-emerges, I think a recession will move up on us much more quickly than we can imagine, and when it occurs it will be a prolonged...
CAPTION: The Consumer Price Index shot upward 0.6% in January, or 7.2% on an annual basis, which represented the strongest monthly surge since January 1987. Major banks responded by raising their prime rate from 11% to 11.5%, the second round of increases in two weeks...
Interest rates jumped and the stock market tumbled after the Consumer Price Index recorded its largest monthly increase in two years. The ominous trend casts a spotlight on the quiet but crucial duel between the White House and the Federal Reserve Board over the direction of U.S. economic policy. -- TV commercials feature a lively new cast of characters: older people...
...nation will get this year's first look at inflation on the consumer level when the January Consumer Price index report is released in two weeks. Consumer prices increased 4.4 percent...