几十个州的利益都与零售物价指数挂钩，但官方承诺，在最坏的情况下将冻结诸如求职补贴和住房补贴。

Dozens of state benefits are pegged to the RPI, but officials have promised that handouts such as jobseeker's allowance and housing benefit will at worst be frozen.

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但是，物价的每一次波动，总要影响到某些人的短期利益。

But every change in prices furthers the short-run interests of other people.

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几乎在每次努力“稳定”物价的时候，总是把生产者的利益放在第一位的。

In nearly every effort to "stabilize" the price of a commodity, the interests of the producers have been put first.

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