ADVISORY/Consumer Price Index -CPI- Has Highest Increase in a Year.Business Editors ADVISORY... --(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 23, 2001 TOPIC: A 17.4 percent surge in the price of residential natural gas reportedly caused the consumer price index (CPI) to rise 0.6 percent last month, the largest monthly increase in almost a year, according to a report by the Labor Department. Over the past year, consumer prices rose 3.7 percent while the core CPI rose a "more moderate" 2.6 percent, according to a story by the Washington Post. EXPERTS: ExpertSource can offer several highly qualified experts to comment on this story: Prof. Michael R. Darby is the Warren C. Cordner Professor of Money and Financial Markets, Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX . A recognized authority in macroeconomics macroeconomics Study of the entire economy in terms of the total amount of goods and services produced, total income earned, level of employment of productive resources, and general behaviour of prices. and international finance, Darby served from 1986 to 1992 in a number of senior positions in the Reagan and Bush administrations, including assistant secretary of the treasury for economic policy, member of the National Commission on Superconductivity superconductivity, abnormally high electrical conductivity of certain substances. The phenomenon was discovered in 1911 by Kamerlingh Onnes, who found that the resistance of mercury dropped suddenly to zero at a temperature of about 4.2°K;. , under secretary of commerce for economic affairs The Under Secretary for Economic Affairs is the principal economic adviser to the United States Secretary of Commerce and the Administrator of the Economics and Statistics Administration. , and administrator of the Economics and Statistics Administration The Economics and Statistics Administration (ESA) is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that produces, analyzes and disseminates national economic and demographic data. . During his appointment, he received the Treasury's highest honor, the Alexander Hamilton Award. PR: Lynn Lipinski (lynn.lipinski@anderson.ucla.edu). Prof. Haskel Benishay is a management professor at Kellogg School of Management
Ms. Mary Daly Mary Daly (born October 16, 1928 in Schenectady, New York) is a radical feminist philosopher and theologian. She taught at Boston College, a Jesuit-run institution, for 33 years. Daly was forcibly retired from Boston College in 1999, after violating university policy. , senior economist of San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank, can discuss research that examines recent trends in natural gas prices, including why prices are rising, the higher natural gas prices in California, and the economic effects of these rising prices in the district. PR: Lily Ruiz (lily.ruiz@sf.frb.org; 415/974-3240). ExpertSource cannot guarantee the immediate availability of these experts or their familiarity with this specific issue. ExpertSource, a collaboration of Business Wire and The Round Table Group, provides academic and industry experts to the media at no charge. Journalists are encouraged to submit queries to ExpertSource when seeking experts on specific subjects. An online registration form is available at http://www.businesswire.com/expertsource. Business Wire's Media Resource Center provides working journalists many free media services. Please visit the BW Media Resource Center at (www.businesswire.com/media) for more information. |
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