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Saturday, August 04, 2012

Trimmed Mean Inflation

PCE Trimmed mean inflation since March. This measure from the Dallas Fed is intended to isolate and highlight trends in inflation and help the Fed stay near its target inflation rate of 2%:


1-month 6-month 12-month
Mar-12 2.30 1.97 2.02
Apr-12 1.50 1.95 1.93
May-12 1.49 1.85 1.90
Jun-12 1.42 1.75 1.86

Notice any trends?

    Posted by on Saturday, August 4, 2012 at 09:30 AM in Economics, Inflation, Monetary Policy | Permalink  Comments (26)

          


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