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A Core CPI index is a CPI that excludes goods with high price volatility, typically food and energy, so as to gauge a more underlying, widespread, or fundamental inflation that affects broader sets of items. More specifically, food and energy prices are subject to large changes that often fail to persist and do not represent relative price changes.
When the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that food prices in April 2022 had increased by 10.8% year over year -- the largest 12-month percentage increase in more than 41 years -- it wasn't a...
"The index for all items less food and energy rose 3.3% over the past 12 months," the Bureau of Labor report said. "The shelter index increased 4.9% over the last year, accounting for over 65% of ...
Even so, food away from home is still up more steeply, rising 7.7% since June 2022 versus 4.7% for food at home over that period, the latest data show. Food inflation is still running hotter than ...
Inflation is the decrease in the purchasing power of a currency. That is, when the general level of prices rise, each monetary unit can buy fewer goods and services in aggregate. The effect of inflation differs on different sectors of the economy, with some sectors being adversely affected while others benefitting.
The PCE price index (PePP), also referred to as the PCE deflator, PCE price deflator, or the Implicit Price Deflator for Personal Consumption Expenditures (IPD for PCE) by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and as the Chain-type Price Index for Personal Consumption Expenditures (CTPIPCE) by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), is a United States-wide indicator of the average increase ...
If inflation is indeed on voters' minds, they likely feel worse in Florida than in most other states. Opinion: Did the Biden Administration's Inflation Reduction Act work in Florida? Skip to main ...
Monetary inflation is a sustained increase in the money supply of a country (or currency area). Depending on many factors, especially public expectations, the fundamental state and development of the economy, and the transmission mechanism, it is likely to result in price inflation, which is usually just called "inflation", which is a rise in the general level of prices of goods and services.