Latest worry: Inflation not rising fast enough

Washington

THERE are times when it seems we're worrying about things that aren't worth worrying about. A good example these days is inflation. Amazingly, the complaint is that it's not rising fast enough. In March, the consumer price index, or CPI, had increased 1.9 per cent over the past year. The gain of another inflation indicator, the "deflator" of the personal consumption expenditures, or PCE, was 1.5 per cent.

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