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Topic: cpi
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Going up in smoke: have we been getting inflation wrong all these years?

Economy

and

Nov 16, 2020

12

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas)

Frydenberg brings in the cherrypicker for tepid economic assessment

Economy

and

Oct 29, 2019

7

(Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)

The plot twist few saw coming in the ‘rate cut looms’ drama

Economy

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Apr 26, 2019

5

Scott Morrison chats to a worker as he visits the Beefy's Pies factory. Image credit: Dan Peled/AAP

Australia’s great wage stagnation continues

Economy

and

Nov 15, 2018

5

Subdued CPI result gives interest rate hawks pause for thought

Business

Nov 01, 2018

1

‘Rate rise looms’ a perennial favourite for error-prone screen jockeys

Economy

and

Oct 27, 2017

(Image: AAP/Deam Lewins)

Changing how CPI is measured won’t help inflation

Economy

and

Oct 26, 2017

2

What’s the real reason for electricity price hikes?

Environment

Aug 08, 2017

10

A link with the EU emissions trading scheme simply confirms a fiscal problem built into the government's package all along.

EU linkage shows where carbon pricing scheme really creaks

Economy

Aug 29, 2012

Crikey readers have their say.

Household debt and the cost of living

Comments, corrections, clarifications and cock-ups

Aug 01, 2012

What CPI result would shift politicians from their insistence about "cost-of-living pressures"? Inflation data shows big rises in government-controlled costs have been offset by flat or falling prices elsewhere.

Deflating the myth of cost of living pressures

Economy

Jul 31, 2012

96

Another good inflation result won't mean much to the Reserve Bank when it next meets, write <b>Glenn Dyer</b> and <b>Bernard Keane</b>.

Inflation is flat — but rate cut doesn’t ‘loom’ …

Economy

Jul 25, 2012

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