PRICES & SPENDING • Aug 2025 • Volume 14 / Number 7
Between December 2023 and December 2024, consumer prices experienced disinflation, where prices still increased but by a smaller amount than before. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased 2.9 percent from December 2023 to December 2024. This was a slower rate of increase than in the three previous 12-month periods ending in December.
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