Economy

Instantaneous PCE Core Inflation below 2%


With August data:

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. Horizontal chartreuse dashed line at 2% PCE inflation target (for CPI should be about 2.5%). Source: BLS, BEA, Pawel Skrzypczynski, and author’s calculations.



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