Meanwhile, the consumer price index or CPI, a main gauge of inflation, reached 6.4% in June, the highest level in three years.

同时作为通胀重要刻度之一的居民消费指数，或CPI，六月份达到了6.4%，创三年以来的最高水平。

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The Consumer price Index (CPI) is widely used as an important indicator of the extent of inflation or deflation, and it is also used in most of literature research on price fluctuations in China.

国际上通常将消费价格指数(CPI)作为反映通货膨胀或通货紧缩程度的重要指标，国内文献大多也采用消费价格指数来研究我国的物价波动。

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President Obama has proposed replacing the regular consumer price index, or CPI, to adjust Social Security benefits with the chained CPI -- often called the cat food CPI because the index assumes that when the price of human food rises, seniors can substitute cheaper food to get the same nutrition.

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The increase for a coming year is based on inflation between the third quarter of the prior year and the third quarter of the current year, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers, or CPI-W. In the third quarter of 2008 energy prices and the CPI-W spiked, giving beneficiaries a hefty 5.8 % COLA for 2009.

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Other, more traditional measures, such as the consumer price index (CPI) are merely lagging indicators of inflation or deflation that has occurred already.

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