The consumer price index, the best-known measure of U.S. inflation, climbed to 2.7% over the 12-month span that ended in November from a 3½-year low of 2.4% two months earlier.

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The consumer price index, the best-known measure of U.S. inflation, climbed to 2.7% over the 12-month span that ended in November from a 31/2-year low of 2.4% two months earlier.

U.S. inflation has bubbled up in the past few months, in a worrisome sign, but that bubble could pop by next spring. The recent rise in inflation has come as a nasty surprise, to be sure.