The nation's central bank recently kicked off a rate-easing cycle. The Fed has undertaken four rate-cutting cycle since 2000, ...

The Fed doesn't base its interest-rate moves on the CPI, however. The central bank prefers the less publicized personal-consumption expenditures, or PCE, price index as the best measure of inflation.

Republicans may be able to repeal it. No one saw a Mekong giant salmon carp for 15 years, but then the species was spotted in areas of Cambodia that suggest it may be found in more locations.