The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its September Inflation report on October 10th, 2019, for the 12 months through the end of September 2019. Annual Inflation is Down Very Slightly Annual inflation in September was 1.71% virtually unchanged from August's 1.75%. Inflation has been in a narrow range throughout 2019.  1.79% in May, 1.81% in July, 1.65% in June, peaking at 2.00% in April.  Inflation peaked at 2.95% in July 2018. The CPI-U index in September was 256.759 up from 256.558 in August.  Monthly Inflation for September was 0.08%, August was -0.01%, July was 0.17%, June was virtually zero at 0.02%, May was 0.21%, April was 0.53%, March was 0.56%.  … [Read more...]