Six Measures Of Instantaneous Core Inflation

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With August CPI release, we have core, chained core, supercore, and services supercore (via P. Skrzypczynski). PPI comes tomorrow.

Figure 1: Instantaneous inflation for core CPI (blue), chained core CPI (tan), supercore CPI (pink), services supercore (light green), PPI core (red), and PCE core (green), per Eeckhout (2023), T=12, a=4. Source: BLS, BEA, Pawel Skrzypczynski, and author’s calculations.

While instaneous core has risen, supercore has stabilized.


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