This paragraph from an Associated Press report by Christopher Rugaber on today's economic news should at a minimum strike readers as odd: A third report noted that prices at the wholesale level remained tame outside a sharp rise in food and energy costs. Excluding those two volatile categories, core wholesale prices rose just 0.1 percent, the Labor Department said. So we're left hanging. Gee Chris, what was the overall change in the Producer Price Index? He never says, at least not in his 11:44 a.m. version of his report. read more
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AP Report Says What Ex-Food and Energy Inflation Is, But Not the Overall Number