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Inflation accelerated in January, rising 3% on an annual basis, indicating that the Federal Reserve's push to drive inflation down to a 2% annual rate has stalled out, at least temporarily. By the ...
Sticky inflation along with last week's positive jobs report make it unlikely the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates at its policy meeting in two weeks, with traders betting on a 97% chance ...
Inflation data in recent months has been encouraging. The Personal Consumption Expenditures price index, the Fed’s favorite inflation gauge, rose 2.2% for the 12 months ended August , down from ...
Meanwhile, the energy index decreased by 1.9% in September, after falling 0.8% in August as gas prices declined a sizable 4.1% last month. On a yearly basis, the energy index was down 6.8%.
As the most widely used measure of inflation, the CPI is an indicator of the effectiveness of government fiscal and monetary policy, especially for inflation-targeting monetary policy by the Federal Reserve. Now however, the Federal Reserve System targets the personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index instead of CPI as a measure of ...
Shadowstats.com is a website that analyzes and offers alternatives to government economic statistics for the United States.Shadowstats primarily focuses on inflation, but also keeps track of the money supply, unemployment and GDP by utilizing methodologies abandoned by previous administrations from the Clinton era to the Great Depression.
The latest data, which came out Wednesday after Biden's recent remarks, pegs the current year-over-year inflation rate at 3.4%, a slight downtick from a 3.5% rate in March.
Caricature of Aubrey Beardsley by Max Beerbohm (1896), taken from Caricatures of Twenty-five Gentlemen. A caricature is a rendered image showing the features of its subject in a simplified or exaggerated way through sketching, pencil strokes, or other artistic drawings (compare to: cartoon).