NIA Inflation Update The official CPI based price inflation rate on a year-over-year basis rose again in the month of August to 3.77% compared to 3.63% in July, 3.56% in June, 3.57% in May, 3.16% in April, 2.68% in March, 2.11% in February, 1.63% in January, 1.5% in December, 1.1% in November, and 1.17% in October. From the low in November, year-over-year CPI growth has increased by 243%! Inflation is now spreading beyond food and energy and to the areas the Fed focuses on with core-CPI, which deceptively excludes food and energy. Core-CPI has now risen 10 months in a row and core-CPI is about to break the Fed's unofficial 1.5% to 2% target range, which will hopefully convince the Fed to finally believe there is an inflation crisis, something NIA members knew back when the Fed was still worried about deflation. Core-CPI was up 1.95% in August on a year-over-year basis compared to 1.77% in July and 1.64% in June. Because the BLS likes to round all CPI numbers, co...
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