THE INFLATION SHIELD?

• Author: Boehm, Eric
• Position: DATA

THE WORST BOUT of inflation in four decades has battered consumers for months, but it has been even worse for businesses. When the Consumer Price Index peaked at 9.1 percent annual growth in June, the Producer Price Index, which shows the change in selling prices received by domestic producers for their output, hit a 48-year high of 22 percent.

Despite what Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and others have suggested...