Word: indexes
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Inflation also benefits mil lions of unionized workers, government pensioners and Social Security recipients whose in comes rise automatically along with the Department of Labor's Consumer Price Index. Econo mists generally say that the CPI exaggerates the real rate of inflation by as much as 2% because, for one thing, it overvalues in creases in home financing charges. This distortion enables many people to keep their incomes ahead of the surge of inflation...
...midday the Dow Jones industrial average had fallen 31 points, although it recovered slightly in the afternoon to close down 23.80 points on a volume of 92.9 million shares. It was the busiest session in the 188-year history of the exchange. The following day, the Dow Jones index sank another 15.19 points...
Last week was the second time in less than a year that Granville appeared not only to have predicted a major market swing, but also perhaps to have set it off. Wall Street sages believe that last April 22, Granville singlehandedly whipped the Dow Jones index into a 31-point advance with a flash advisory to buy stocks...
...private-sector executives since 1969 but only 43% for top bureaucrats. Salaries of court of appeals judges rose 35% during that period, but lawyers in private practice saw their earnings leap 100%. Scarcely anyone, however, truly kept up with inflation during those eleven years, when the Consumer Price Index rose a staggering...
...Herbie wasn't at the tables this night, he was sitting in a bar with a pad of paper, a pen and some index cards. It took me a little while before I remembered, and then it hit me. More than anything else--although I'd better exclude his wife and kids in case they read this--Action Herbie loves to bet pro football...