{"id":284082,"date":"2026-09-11T22:12:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T22:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/284082\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T22:12:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T22:12:41","slug":"economic-pulse-week-of-9-11-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/284082\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Pulse: Week of 9\/11\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inflation remained at 3.4%<\/p>\n<p>According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the seasonally adjusted Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.4% in August. Gasoline prices rose 27% over the last 12 months, pushing the overall cost of energy up 16%. Over the last 12 months, one of the most consequential price increases has been the 59% rise in diesel prices, as of this taping. Diesel fuels trucks and trains and, as such, affects the cost of everything shipped.<\/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: 9\/11\/26)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inflation remained at 3.4% According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the seasonally adjusted Consumer Price Index (CPI)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-284082","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\/284082","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=284082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}