13 October 2022 at 14:37 Price inflation in the USA was 8.2 per cent higher in September Price inflation in the USA was 8.2 per cent higher in September than in the same month in 2021. The consumer price index increased by 0.4 per cent. On Wednesday evening, the US central bank published a report from the interest rate meeting in September. There they referred to the level of inflation as “unacceptably high”. In September, the US central bank decided to raise interest rates by 0.75 percentage points – a so-called triple hike – to an interest rate range of 3.0-3.25 per cent, the highest since 2008. Unemployment in the US is 3.5 per cent, the lowest in 50 years, while there is still a high demand for labour.
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