Recently added articles from Monthly Labor Review:
Producer prices reverse course in 2008: after surging in 2007 and the first 7 months of 2008, prices for energy goods plummeted during the final 5 months of the year; similarly, inflation in food prices slowed significantly in 2008, following a steep runup in 2007 and early-to-mid 2008.(PPI Highlights, 2008)
Jul 01, 2009; Kowal, Joseph ... In a turnaround, the Producer Price Index (PPI) for finished goods fell 0.9 percent in 2008 after having risen 6.2 percent in 2007. (1) The 2007 increase was the largest calendar-year advance since a 7.1-percent jump in 1981, and the 2008 decline was the first year-over-year decrease since ...
