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Inflation measures are often modified over time, either for the relative weight of goods in the basket, or in the way in which goods and services from the present are compared with goods and services from the past. Basket weights are updated regularly, usually every year, to adapt to changes in consumer behavior.
At that time, the weights for indices like CPI-U and CPI-W were updated only once per decade; today, they are updated in January of even-numbered years. However, even with this more frequent updates, the CPI-U and CPI-W might still be excessively slow in responding to new technologies.
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Annual inflation increased to 8.3% in August 2022, in part due to rising grocery prices. [154] In September, the Fed increased the interest for a fifth time in the year reaching a 14-year high. [155] In November 2022, the year-over-year inflation rate was 7.1%, the lowest it has been since December 2021 but still much higher than average. [156]
While inflation has cooled down, some American cities are being hit more than others. In October, inflation stood at 3.2% from 3.7% in September, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS)...
But as many categories fell, core services inflation has remained a bugaboo for the Fed — and consumers. The stickiest part of the inflation story is still sticky: Chart of the Week [Video] Skip ...
And though these figures come from a different data set, Friday’s jobs report showed wage gains continued to impress, rising 0.6% over the prior month in January and 4.5% over last year. And ...
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.