{"id":265514,"date":"2026-08-14T20:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T20:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/265514\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T20:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T20:50:13","slug":"economic-pulse-week-of-8-14-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/265514\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Pulse: Week of 8\/14\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inflation at 3.4%<\/p>\n<p>According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the seasonally adjusted Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.2% in July, despite a 3% drop in gasoline prices. Overall inflation for the past 12 months now stands at 3.4%. This, however, is the average; a more relevant rate for our region is 4.6%.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/kadac.net\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a> for the latest Lehigh Valley Economic Review.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to Economic Pulse Fridays at 5:44 PM during All Things Considered; Mondays at 7:30 AM during Morning Edition.<\/p>\n<p>(Original air-date: 8\/14\/26)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inflation at 3.4% According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the seasonally adjusted Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-265514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}