Wednesday's Labor Department report on consumer prices for January, which is a closely watched gauge for inflation。
其实早有人提到inflation的问题,最近一次在上周The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for January, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes!!!, were $382.9 billion, an increase of 0.3 percent (±0.5%)* from the previous month and 3.9 percent (±0.7%) above January 2007."