Consumer Price index

The Mile High price tag: Denver now among worst in U.S. for inflation

Denver has a highly ranked park system and was recently named one of the coolest cities in the country, but living around the Mile High City isn’t cheap.

According to a new study by WalletHub, the Denver metro has the fifth-worst inflation problem in the United States, with costs rising on a monthly and yearly basis.

WalletHub analyzed inflation impacts in 23 major metropolitan areas for the study, lumping together Denver, Aurora and Lakewood. In metro Denver, the change in Consumer Price Index compared to two months ago is 1 percent and the change over the last year is 2.2 percent, WalletHub research shows.

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Promises made, promises kept: Consumer prices fell in March, defying predictions of tarifflation

U.S. consumer prices fell in March, pushed down by a decline in the price of goods and defying predictions that President Trump’s tariff plans would push up prices. This was the first drop in consumer prices in nearly three years and only the second decline since inflation accelerated under Joe Biden to the worst rates in decades.

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