A chief measure of price inflation is the inflation rate, the annualized percentage change in a general price index ( normally the Consumer Price Index ) over time.

* United States Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index homepage

* Inflation 1290 – 2006 – Based on the historical Consumer Price Index of the Swedish Riksbank

Official indices report a Consumer Price Index increase of 30 % in Beijing between 1987 – 88, leading to panic among salaried workers that they could no longer afford staple goods.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt revived the Advisory Commission to World War I Council on National Defense on May 29, 1940, to include Price Stabilization and Consumer Protection Divisions.

Although these figures are greater than the 1962 figure at which the Mona Lisa was valued, the comparison does not account for the change in prices due to inflation – $ 100 million in 1962 is approximately $ 720 million in 2010 when adjusted for inflation using the US Consumer Price Index.

* U. S. Consumer Price Index

Examples: unemployment rate, quits rate, housing starts, Consumer Price Index ( a measure for inflation ), Consumer Leverage Ratio, industrial production, bankruptcies, Gross Domestic Product, broadband internet penetration, retail sales, stock market prices, money supply changes.

* The change in the Consumer Price Index for services

Financial capital maintenance in units of constant purchasing power, i. e., Constant Item Purchasing Power Accounting – CIPPA – in terms of a Daily Consumer Price Index or daily rate at all levels of inflation and deflation ( see the original Framework ( 1989 ), Par 104 ( a )) Conceptual Framework ( 2010 ), Par.

Stable measuring unit assumption: financial capital maintenance in nominal monetary units or traditional Historical cost accounting only under the traditional Historical Cost paradigm ; i. e., accountants consider changes in the purchasing power of the functional currency up to but excluding 26 % per annum for three years in a row ( which would be 100 % cumulative inflation over three years or hyperinflation as defined in IAS 29 ) as immaterial or not sufficiently important for them to choose Capital Maintenance in units of constant purchasing power in terms of a Daily Consumer Price Index or daily rate Constant Item Purchasing Power Accounting at all levels of inflation and deflation as authorized in IFRS in the original Framework ( 1989 ), Par 104 ( a ) Conceptual Framework ( 2010 ), Par.

Units of constant purchasing power: capital maintenance in units of constant purchasing power at all levels of inflation and deflation in terms of a Daily Consumer Price Index or daily rate ( Constant Item Purchasing Power Accounting ) only under the Capital Maintenance in Units of Constant Purchasing Power paradigm ; i. e. the total rejection of the stable measuring unit assumption at all levels of inflation and deflation.

Capital maintenance in units of constant purchasing power under Constant Item Purchasing Power Accounting in terms of a Daily Consumer Price Index or daily rate of all constant real value non-monetary items in all entities that at least break even in real value at all levels of inflation and deflation-ceteris paribus-remedies for an indefinite period of time the erosion caused by Historical Cost Accounting of the real values of constant real value non-monetary items never maintained constant as a result of the implementation of the stable measuring unit assumption at all levels of inflation and deflation under HCA.

( a ) a Daily Consumer Price Index or monetized daily indexed unit of account, e. g. the Unidad de Fomento in Chile, during low inflation, high inflation and deflation and

IAS 29 is prescribed during hyperinflation: i. e. the restatement of Historical Cost or Current Cost period-end financial statements in terms of the period-end monthly published Consumer Price Index.

Price fixing is illegal in Australia under the Consumer and Competition Act 2010 which have considerably similar prohibitions to the US and Canadian prohibitions.

Cora Hubbard, who was 20 at the time, John Sheets, a 23-year-old from Missouri, and 31-year-old Albert Whitfield “ Whit ” Tennison robbed the Mcdonald County Bank stealing a total of $ 589. 23 ( the equivalent of $ 15, 700 in 2009 on the Consumer Price Index scale ).

This is because the CIPPA model is generally viewed by accountants as a 1970's failed inflation accounting model that requires all non-monetary items-variable real value non-monetary items and constant real value non-monetary items-to be inflation-adjusted by means of the Consumer Price Index.

Cora Hubbard, who was 20 at the time, John Sheets, a 23-year-old from Missouri, and 31-year-old Albert Whitfield “ Whit ” Tennison robbed the Mcdonald County Bank stealing a total of $ 589. 23 ( the equivalent of $ 15, 700 in 2009 on the Consumer Price Index scale ).

* Price Spikes, Excess Profits and Excuses ( publication of the Consumer Federation of America )

* Consumer Price Index

This is not necessarily the kind of classification that is most appropriate for a Consumer Price Index.

* Household Expenditure surveys do not cover the expenditures of foreign visitors, though these may be within the scope of a Consumer Price Index.

Using the Historical Consumer Price Index for Jan 1913 ( 9. 8 ) and Jan 2009 ( 211. 143 ), the rate of inflation change is 2, 067 %.

Adjusted for inflation using the Consumer Price Index ( CPI ), that would be the equivalent of $ 215 million dollars in 2007.

Either they ignore inflation completely, or they are indexed to the Consumer Price Index ( CPI ), which tends to understate real inflation.

Average net salaries in Republika Srpska saw a real growth of 21. 8 %, since 2008 inflation measured by Consumer Price Index was 7. 2 %.

Benefit rates are indexed to the Consumer Price Index and are adjusted twice a year according to inflation or deflation.

The principal is adjusted to the Consumer Price Index ( CPI ), the commonly used measure of inflation.

Consumer communities have suffered at the hands of the productive interests.

They have three ministers in Berlin: Hans-Peter Friedrich ( Federal Ministry of the Interior ), Peter Ramsauer ( Federal Minister of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs ) and Ilse Aigner ( Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ).

The Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame inducted him in 2000, " in recognition of his contributions and pioneering spirit that have laid the foundation for consumer electronics.

Consumer organizations, environmentalist groups, and opponents to food irradiation refer to some studies suggesting that a large part of the public questions the safety of irradiated foods, and will not buy foods that have been irradiated.

There were plans to release the G7400 in the United States as the Odyssey³ and later as the Odyssey³ Command Center ; the system was demonstrated at the 1983 Consumer Electronics Show and some prototypes have been found.

Consumer equipment, and in particular compact audio cassette recorders have the bias set at a compromise level ( usually a little higher ) to give good frequency response and acceptably low distortion.

Russ Heimerich, a spokesman for the state Department of Consumer Affairs, said, " We have not seen any evidence of the kind of massive desecration that being alleged ... The kind of activity they're alleging not easily hidden, especially on a willful, large-scale basis.

As offerings have evolved to include multiple services and data operators have increasingly given consumers the opportunity to rent additional devices like access modems, internet gateways and video extenders that enable them to access multiple services, and distribute them to a range of Consumer Electronics devices around the home.

Consumer products like this have been using firmware since the 1970s.

The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act ( or CBDTPA ) was a United States bill proposed in 2002 that would have prohibited any kind of technology that could be used to read digital content without digital rights management ( DRM )— which prohibits copying and reading any content under copyright without permission of the copyright owner.

Throughout 2010 and 2011 a number of authorities around the world including the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, the Bank of Namibia and the Central Bank of Lesotho have declared TVI Express to be a pyramid scheme.

Over the years, many academic settings have adopted other names for the study of home economics, such as Human Sciences, Human Ecology, and Family and Consumer Sciences.

According to the auto editors of Consumer Guide it had " an unusually long option list for the era " so owners could have luxury and conveniences typically found in more expensive cars, and these options " came with a much higher profit margin " for the automaker.

Consumer prices have risen marginally over the past few years.

According to Consumer Reports, as many as 56 % of Americans don't have a will.

Consumer DIMM vendors have recently begun to distinguish between single and dual ranked DIMMs.

Consumer analog cassette tapes may have a dynamic range of 60 to 70 dB.

4173, the bill that became the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, Representative Maurice Hinchey ( D-NY ) proposed an amendment to the bill that would have reenacted Glass-Steagall Sections 20 and 32 and also prohibited bank insurance activities.

Since these accounts include the equivalent rental value of owner-occupied dwellings, the equivalent rental approach would have to be applied in the Consumer Price Index too.

Recent developments in U. S. trademark law have included the adoption of the Federal Trademark Dilution Act of 1995 ( see Trademark dilution ), the 1999 Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, and the Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006 ( see Trademark dilution ).

In the United States, the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the American National Standards Institute have created a Standardized Document and Training System for certification of Playground Safety Inspectors.

Consumer products such as baby alarms have been available at least since 1940.