Byline: DAVE SKIDMORE Associated Press
The worst increase in consumer prices in two years accompanied signs of a resurgent economy, including fewer layoffs and the highest level of industrial production since early in the recession, the government said Thursday.
The Labor Department's Consumer Price Index shot up 0.5 percent in January, the biggest increase since January 1991. If prices continued rising at that rate through the rest of the year, inflation would total 6.1 percent in 1993, more than double the 2.9 percent of 1992.
Most economists dismissed the January price report as mostly an aberration, but they warned that stronger economic growth …
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