Our new data page, CPI Inflation Contributions from Goods and Services, details the evolution of inflation using the consumer ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics uses information gathered by BLS data collectors to calculate the CPI. Then, it publishes the CPI on a monthly (and sometimes bimonthly) basis. Are There Inflation ...

Recent Inflation Metrics, Year-Over-Year vs 3 or 6 month annualized run rate [Note: The Consumer Price Index – CPI – always runs hot. The Fed prefers the Personal Consumption Expenditure Index ...

This could improve on a calculation methodology used by the BLS to calculate CPI that is decades old. Alan Reynolds writing for the Cato Institute has been more vocal arguing that “CPI rent is ...

The research series offers the best possible approximation of what the CPI would have been if the new method had been used before, based on the available data. In this series, the indices for gas and ...