Food At Home CPI – Accelerating Growth

Menzie Chinn
By Menzie Chinn of Econbrowser.com
Professor of Public Affairs and Economics at the University of Wisconsin •

Examining the recent CPI data shows rapidly rising costs for food consumed at home.

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From the CPI release:
 

Figure 1: CPI – food at home (black), ERS forecast of January 2025 (blue square), of March 2025 (red triangle), of August 2025 (inverted green triangle).  Source: BLS via FRED, ERS, and author’s calculations.

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