This inflation calculator uses the change in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) from 1913 to 2025 to estimate the U.S. dollar's buying power and future value.

Today, the U.S. Department of Labor released the consumer price index (CPI) for November, and inflation hit a 39-year high. Wall Street analysts and economists had generally expected to show the ...

The $100 you just spent at the grocery store bought 4% less than it did one year ago. Why is that? The consumer price index (CPI) helps answer this question, as it measures inflation, the economic ...

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The Consumer Price Index “is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services,” according to the Bureau of Labor ...

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