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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (15303)	2/21/2002 2:51:23 AM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 74559

For the 12-month period ending last month (i.e. 12/01), consumer prices rose 3.4%, while the core CPI, which excludes energy and food items, rose 2.5%. Ray, your edit "(i.e. 12/01)" is incorrect. Your link quotes an old article using year 2000 data. Here's the original from November 2000... longboatobserver.com Contrary to the gist of your post, inflation has fallen since then. This annual table shows the lower inflation in 2001... ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/cpi/cpiai.txt Here's the main BLS CPI page... bls.gov