Wholesale inflation surges
By: AMY MCALISTER
July 15, 2008
Looks like Bernanke has a reason for concern. Via the Associated Press:
The Labor Department reported that soaring costs for gasoline and food pushed inflation at the wholesale level up by a bigger-than-expected 1.8 percent in June, leaving inflation rising over the past year at the fastest pace in more than a quarter-century.
Over the past 12 months, wholesale prices are up 9.2 percent, the largest year-over-year surge since June 1981, another period when soaring energy costs were giving the country inflation pains.
Exclude energy and food and the picture looks a whole heck of a lot sunnier, continuing the months long trend.
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