The Center Square — The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis released its Personal Consumption Expenditure Index, a key marker of inflation, which showed an increase of 0.3% last month.

Since inflation nearly always rises, what economists look for is not whether or not it rose, but how quickly it rose. These latest numbers came in as experts expected.

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