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April 1999

Consumer inflation remains modest in 1998

Todd L. Wilson

Consumer prices increased only slightly for the second straight year, keeping the inflation rate at its lowest level in more than a decade; the CPI-U excluding food and energy prices (often called the core CPI-U) increased 2.4 percent, slightly more than the 2.2 percent increase that occurred during the prior year

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