
Retail sales growth in 2007 was the slowest in five years, but that hasn’t kept inflation in check, at least at the wholesale level: Producer prices for all of 2007 rose at their fastest rate in more than 25 years.

Retail sales growth in 2007 was the slowest in five years, but that hasn’t kept inflation in check, at least at the wholesale level: Producer prices for all of 2007 rose at their fastest rate in more than 25 years.