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History of inflation in the US from Jan 1914 - Mar 2009. Year-over-year data calculated for each month using (This year-last year)/last year: Date: 27 April 2009: Source: CPI-U (all urban consumers, U.S. cities average) data from Department of Labor / Bureau of Labor Statistics . Author: Lalala666: Other versions: longer time-scale
Illustrated t.p. (27 x 36 cm.) depicts five men around a balloon labeled "Inflation 00,000,000" with a patch labeled "4,000,000 legalized." The 1874 Inflation Bill, which President Grant vetoed on April 22, proposed that there should be 00,000,000 in greenbacks, adding 4,000,000 to the paper currency.
Historical inflation, using data from (pre-1913: McCusker study; post-1913: CPI-U [annual averages]) Pre-1774 data can be found in How Much is that in Real Money?: A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States [0-944026-33-8] McCusker (not shown in linked source)
From there, it accelerated — past 2% in March, past 4% in April and 5% in May. By December, consumer prices hit the 7% year-over-year barrier. And on and on it went: 7.5% in January, 7.9% in ...
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics' December Consumer Price Index (CPI) posted a 7.0% year-over-year increase at the end of 2021 in the fastest increase since 1982. This matched consensus estimates ...
The yearslong trend of modest inflation was well-established when Donald Trump took office in January 2017, and many of the pandemic-driven building blocks for soaring prices were already in place ...
In January of each year, Social Security recipients receive a cost of living adjustment (COLA) "to ensure that the purchasing power of Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits is not eroded by inflation. It is based on the percentage increase in the consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers (CPI-W)".