Is the government lying to us about inflation?
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The concern is understandable, since the consumer-price index affects everything from Social Security’s annual cost-of-living adjustment to the interest rate earned by investors in Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities.
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The concern is understandable, since the consumer-price index affects everything from Social Security’s annual cost-of-living adjustment to the interest rate earned by investors in Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities.
This summary comes from MarketWatch.com - Top Stories. Read the full article at the original source.
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