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Why Worry Over Inflation?

By Tracie Powell and CQ Guest Columnist
Posted July 9, 2009 at 12:00am

consumer prices:
tea party goers
personal or investment
government stimulus money
reported
anxiety
15 million people
data
average wages are in free-fall
other media reports
hash out
Tracie Powell is a former American Political Science Association congressional fellow and writes regularly on politics and policy.

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