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Price increases seem to be interfering with the UK's love of shopping: clothing and food price inflation all rose sharply on the month.

The fact of the matter is, what is driving food price inflation today is skyrocketing energy costs. Period.

Put differently, by the time risk-taking and asset price inflation again take off, it may be too late for the Fed to turn it back.

The Bank for International Settlements has long warned of the dangers of unrestrained credit growth and asset price inflation.

Bernanke deserves to be impeached for his previous acts of perjury and for blatantly ignoring the price inflation that exists all around us.

That said, the traditional harbinger of rate rises, consumer-price inflation, remains relatively benign.

It said the 6 per cent growth rate was "consistent with consumer price inflation a little higher than its target" .

The end result, of course, will be accelerating price inflation and distorted production across the globe.

The main impact will be asset price inflation and then that of goods and services.

"I hope the new measures will contribute to preventing the resurgence of house price inflation. " He said.

But the premier said the political priority was to tame consumer price inflation, which hit an 11-year high of 7. 1 per cent in January.

it has not occurred against the background of general commodity price inflation and global excess demand.

The revolution in Tunisia has put the political and economic effects of food-price inflation at the top of the international agenda.

The "crime tax" -the amount every American family loses to shoplifting-related price inflation-is more than $400 a year.

That's a price inflation of around 400%, which some Chinese growers, watching their wallets bulge, are happy to see.

"Overheating" is the Keynesian term for price inflation arising as a result of too much monetary pumping into the economy.

The huge spike in global commodity price inflation is prima facie evidence that the global economy is still growing too fast.

Unemployment was falling and consumer-price inflation, though exceeding the official 2% target, was only a bit above 3%.

According to recent reports, the BBC will have to make do with annual increases below retail-price inflation, less than it asked for.

China's consumer price inflation accelerated to its fastest pace in three years in June, propelled by soaring food prices.

First, we've had a U. S. consumer-price-inflation report that showed prices are going up so slowly that inflation is virtually nonexistent.

The core driver behind the decline is expected to be a fall in energy price inflation.

Meanwhile, the falling cost of manufactured goods led to a sharper-than-expected 1. 2 per cent fall in producer price inflation in March.

The 2009 stimulus package also spurred consumer price inflation to a year-over-year acceleration of 5. 5 percent in May.

While top-end pay rises were at close to or above retail price inflation, a large number of deals settled well below this level.

Food price inflation is felt disproportionately by the poor, who spend over half their income on food.

But China is loth to allow the yuan to appreciate rapidly. And it will not be pressured by high consumer-price inflation, as it was in 2008.

As a result of the rise in energy costs, the German production price inflation level increased to 8. 3%.

This is an entirely different type of inflation than price inflation and deserving of its own multi thousand word editorial.

Grim climate predictions and recent food-price inflation have led to growing fears for food security, adding to the pressure.

The directors think that the supply of commodities will not rise to meet demand in a globalising world, and that price inflation is a given.

And with the Core Rate of consumer price inflation down to an annual rate just over 2 percent.

You now have inflation somewhat out of control, and causing some serious danger of wage-price inflation.

We wanted to make Stockholm a more open city, a city that today is characterized by premises left empty and locked awaiting price inflation.

Ample liquidity, low inflation and strong growth are the perfect ingredients for sustained asset-price inflation.

We're actually close to the peak in year-on-year consumer price inflation--it could move a little higher, but not much.

Officially, China's consumer price inflation topped out at 3. 3 percent in July compared to a year before, a 21-month high.

Consumer price inflation is also rising, thanks to higher food prices, and so a stronger currency might be a good way to stop overheating.

Asset price inflation is seen as a minor worry, affecting only the better-off.

There was mixed news in the PMI's gauge of input costs, which are a proxy for producer price inflation.

Fed officials say commodities- price inflation is driven primarily by global demand, particularly from fast-growing economies like China.

Annual price inflation in the US is significantly correlated (with a 3? -year lag) with annual changes in money supply per unit of capacity.

This creates a permanent tendency for asset-price inflation and makes money more likely to flee the banking system in times of crisis.

Government's Sustainable Communities Plan anticipates a growth in housing volumes to reduce house price inflation in economic growth areas.

The riskiest economies, all with current-account deficits and relatively high consumer-price inflation, are India, Turkey and Hungary.

How should we respond to simultaneous producer price inflation and decreasing consumer discretionary spending?

That lending is leading to unsustainable asset-price inflation, while wasteful investment is producing oodles of excess capacity.

This is consistent with a recent drop in property sales growth across the country and falling house price inflation.

Meanwhile, UK consumer price inflation came in above expectations, albeit at the lowest level in eight months.

But it's been the monetisation of asset price inflation in the US that has maintained the balance sheet of the consumer.

China is gripped by price inflation that has triggered a wave of strikes and protests across the country.

Headline consumer-price inflation is likely to have topped 4% in the same period, so for many real pay is falling.

But with food-price inflation at 6. 2%, Britain's trust busters seem increasingly reluctant to let such mergers pass unchecked.

That augurs ill for consumer spending, which has been buoyed over the past couple of years by another bout of rapid house-price inflation.

The return of clothing price inflation in China is increasing costs just as the consumer is reining back spending.

S. companies as a short-term solution, are losing support in the face of food-price inflation.

Consumer-price inflation is not an imminent threat, because prices are falling in most Asian countries.

Dollar weakness over the past year had "contributed to the unwelcome rise in import prices and consumer price inflation" .

A wave of food-price inflation is moving through the world, leaving riots and shaken governments in its wake.

But food price inflation is one of the most sensitive issues in China and Beijing has variously blamed bad weather and speculation.

Asset deflation coupled with consumer-price inflation is a powerful recipe for political discontent.

China is expected to buck global trends and announce today a substantial drop in monthly consumer price inflation.

The focal point of the government's tightening efforts has been housing price inflation, which has begun to slow in recent months.

Food price inflation has long been a key concern for wider social stability in China.

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Annual cabbage-price inflation is now 400% in Seoul, say official statistics.

PRICE inflation remains relatively subdued in the rich world, even though central banks are busily printing money.

And it wants a programme of liberalisation and privatisation to promote competition, increase productivity and cut consumer-price inflation.

The National Bureau of Statistics also announced changes in how it calculates consumer price inflation.

Then, renting offered the young, especially, a haven from galloping house-price inflation.

His caution comes amid wide concerns about food price inflation in emerging economies from China and India to Mexico.

Even Thailand threw some nasty consumer price inflation, or rather deflation, into the mix.

Monetary inflation ALWAYS produces price inflation regardless of the level of business activity.

Trade wars, currency manipulation and asset price inflation in China are part of a vocabulary that departs from Pandit's usual scripts.

Severe overcapacity means that prices for electronic goods are declining and even food-price inflation has eased significantly.

The primary driver behind this decline is consumer price inflation, particularly food.

But wage inflation would risk fuelling more general price inflation, similar in effect to an appreciation of the Chinese currency.

British and American policymakers appear to regard the recent period of house price inflation in their countries with equanimity.

Rapid productivity growth holds down product prices but asset price inflation is rampant.

With producer price inflation at 10% year on year in July and still rising, companies may increasingly seek to pass on costs to customers.

Slack labor markets reflected in high rates of unemployment should mean tame price inflation.

For now, food-price inflation is boosting spending world-wide on agricultural equipment.

The banks' course was made possible by cheap money, facilitated in turn by low consumer-price inflation.

asset price inflation: Steep increase in equity and property prices.

Overexuberance in the financial markets might spill over into broader real asset and consumer price inflation in these economies.

In February, consumer price inflation in China rose 4. 9 per cent from a year earlier, the same reading as in January.

But the news that Chinese consumer price inflation had hit an 11-year last month pulled the Shanghai market off early highs.

Yet strong growth in emerging economies is stoking commodity-price inflation.

Soaring wage and price inflation would restore the uncompetitive status quo.

China is stepping up efforts to tame soaring pork prices that helped push consumer price inflation to a surprise 4. 4 per cent in June.

China's 4. 9 per cent consumer price inflation rate in January was a little lower than expected.

Year-on-year house-price inflation peaked in April at 12. 8%, but has since moderated a bit.

When currencies collapse, price inflation usually picks up.

Along the way the country will be buffeted by price inflation and wage disputes, Dowey warns.

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"Price inflation is not merely an economic matter, " Mao said. "It is also political and social. "

Rapid food price inflation in 2008 sparked riots in a number of countries.

But food-price inflation is an issue not just in poor countries.

Inflation is further pummelling earnings: producer price inflation rose by 10 per cent in the year to July.

But the latest government data show the food situation hasn't been resolved and food-price inflation has jumped in India of late.

They have plummeted in recent months, as markets have become more gloomy about the economy and consumer price inflation has slid toward 0%.

But the continuous high growth also leads to price inflation and higher wages.

As recently as March, annual consumer-price inflation was 1. 8%, below the government's target for the bank of 2. 0%.

So this is the "barrel half-full" argument: oil price inflation has not outstripped economic growth.

The unemployment rate fell to an eight-year low in May, and core consumer price inflation, which excludes fresh food, rose to 0. 6 per cent.

House-price inflation in South Africa remains in double digits.

We remain sanguine about general price inflation.

Food price inflation is wreaking havoc across the world, and it's getting worse.

In addition, consumer-price inflation continues to ease, the latest data show, reflecting the plunge.

Recent macro statistics also reflect a high probability that consumer-price inflation will be as high as 5% in coming years.

Economists disagree on the best way to measure consumer-price inflation.

Indeed, food price inflation is one way to transfer income from better-off urban households to those in rural areas.

An unexpected bout of food-price inflation in 2007, which looks likely to continue in 2008, will anger the urban poor.

Singapore, Australia and Taiwan face similar levels of property price inflation and they have very different exchange rate regimes.

The IMF already forecasts consumer price inflation at 2 per cent next year in high-income countries.

China's annual consumer price inflation is entrenched above 5% and edging higher.

Stripping out export price inflation brings Korean year-on-year growth down to only 10 per cent or so.

In fact though, food price inflation has probably already peaked.

It might also spark fresh consumer price inflation.

Many private economists expect consumer-price inflation, which reached 2. 9% in June, to decline later this year.

Consumer price inflation, already slightly above target (at 2. 1 per cent), is expected to rise further in the months ahead.

The following year, house-price inflation came to a halt.

Consumer-price inflation jumped in April to 3. 7%, raising worries about the persistence of the upsurge.

Second , the use of higher policy rates to manage asset price inflation is a bona fide discussion , but not for now .

Consumer-price inflation rose to a 16-year high of 5. 2% in September, but is expected to fall back soon.

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The US authorities are mostly ignoring both the steady fall in the unemployment rate and the 4. 1 per cent wholesale price inflation rate.

Last week, 10-year US Treasuries bonds yielded a mere 3. 7 per cent, a rate below the actual rate of US consumer price inflation.

So what explains the return of food-price inflation?

Consumer-price inflation is already at 3. 3% and expected to rise above 4% (double the official target rate) later this year.

Deflationary pressures eased, with consumer price inflation falling 1. 2 per cent in August, compared with a 1. 8 per cent drop in July.

Price inflation still rages although the government has taken some measures to tackle the problem.

The official index of annual consumer price inflation, meanwhile, registered just 3. 5 per cent last month.

A steadily growing slice of retail-price inflation has been caused by rising oil and commodity prices.

House price inflation has slipped to 9 per cent recently but the market remains firm.

But headline consumer price inflation, politically sensitive in China, will not allow it.

'If food-price inflation goes down, but nonfood inflation goes up, economically it's a big problem.

Consumer-price inflation has risen to almost 7% (see chart), well above Asia's average rate of 2. 5%.

I hope the new measures will contribute to preventing the house price inflation.

China's consumer-price inflation fell from 6. 3% in July to 4. 9% in August, helped by a smaller increase in food prices.

"We're seeing the early stages of asset-price inflation in China, " Rothman says.

stripping these out, retail-price inflation remained unchanged at 3. 3%.

Consumer price inflation fell to 4. 6 per cent in December, after reaching a more than two-year high of 5. 1 per cent the previous month.

And that is without counting consumer-price inflation.

China's consumer-price inflation accelerated to 5. 5% in the year to May.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's claim that he can stop price inflation, should it occur, seems dubious.

Inflation is running at 18% and food-price inflation is over 50%.

In August, consumer price inflation dropped to 4. 9 per cent, the lowest since June 2007 and well below forecasts.

Indeed, consumer price inflation jumped from a rate of 0. 6 per cent year-on-year in November to 1. 9 per cent last month.

By expanding the balance sheet by $600 billion, NIA believes the real price inflation rate will rise above 10% in early 2011.

It is therefore this expansion in the money supply, not an artificially low currency per se that is creating price inflation in China.

The government's focus has shifted from curbing consumer price inflation - now at a 15-month low of 4. 6% - to maintaining steady growth.

In addition, the superficial comments on 2007-2008 market price inflation of Cooking-Oil was discussed.

And the annual rate of house-price inflation accelerated from 5. 0% in June to 5. 9% in July, according to the Nationwide building society.

Both stalled in 2005, yet both have clocked up house-price inflation of around 10% in the past year.

Last year, cultural consumption was hindered by the depressed domestic consumption due to price inflation.

Official consumer price inflation has now dropped to 5. 5 per cent.

Consumer-price inflation eased to 4. 6 percent in December.

The Chinese government has unveiled a series of measures since April 2010 to mute house-price inflation.

Consumer price inflation approached 2 per cent in December, from 0. 6 per cent a month earlier.

Despite rising fears of overheating, consumer price inflation dipped to 2. 4 per cent last month, from 2. 7 per cent in February.

Consumer-price inflation in South Africa rose to 11. 1% in April, the highest in five years.

The ceiling of 2. 79% on 12-month deposits barely compensates them for consumer-price inflation, which rose to 2. 7% in February.

The IPCA consumer price inflation index was 5. 5% in the 12 months through mid-November, above the country's year-end target of 4. 5%.

Britain's annual consumer-price inflation rate fell to 2. 9% in March from 3. 2% in February.

The annual consumer price inflation rate was 4. 9 per cent in both January and February, exceeding the government's 4 per cent target.

Chinese consumer price inflation hit a 33-month high of 4. 4 percent in June.

Another big difference is that inflation in India is much higher than it is in China, where consumer-price inflation is running at 3%.

producer price inflation of 6. 6 per cent.

Food price inflation held steady at August's level of 13. 4 percent.

India's closely watched wholesale price inflation jumped 6. 73 per cent in the 12 months to February 3.

Consumer-price inflation slipped to 3. 2% in October from 3. 6% a month earlier.

Year-on-year consumer price inflation fell to 13. 1% in June, from 17. 2% in April.

Consumer price inflation was 2. 9% in June, down from 3. 1% in the previous month.

Food price inflation was 11. 7 per cent.

But nationwide house-price inflation was propped up by a 40% surge in Perth last year, thanks to the minerals boom.

That is partly because annual oil-price inflation is running at 17%, compared with 100% at its peak in 2008.

Producer-price inflation quickened to 6. 6 percent from 5. 9 percent.

Despite a big fall from peaks in 2008, food-price inflation remains high in places such as Kenya and Russia.

The World Bank said many developing countries were imperilled by soaring consumer price inflation.

One new nugget, however, was Premier Wen Jiabao's full-year consumer price inflation target of 3 per cent, down from 4 per cent last year.

Consumer price inflation has been rising since the middle of last year, reaching a 34-month high of 5. 5% in May.

China controls retail fuel tariffs to curb consumer price inflation, which was 5. 4 percent last month, the highest since 2008.

In November, consumer price inflation (CPI) hit a record by increasing 5. 1% year-on-year.

Given broad stability of grain prices, significant further acceleration in food price inflation is unlikely; and

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Consumer price inflation in May was 7. 7 per cent, down from 8. 5 per cent the month before