The pandemic revealed how vulnerable our economy is to supply chain disruptions, with shortages driving price increases across multiple sectors. Our Supply Chain Monitor tracks bottlenecks in key industries and transportation networks that can affect prices and production capacity throughout the economy. We analyze shipping costs, delivery times, inventory levels, and component availability across critical sectors like semiconductors, housing materials, and energy.
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Jan 16, 2025
The current stabilization, with growth rates returning to low positive figures, suggests continued normalization rather than the beginning of a new inflationary cycle.
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Jan 15, 2025
Today’s data update takes a closer look at the manufacturing data within the most recent Employment Situation release.
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Dec 19, 2024
The November data continues to show broad-based normalization and slowing, with a few sectors in particular trouble.
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Dec 16, 2024
The November 2024 Producer Price Index data continue to show normalizing input cost growth for the economy as a whole, as well as most individual sectors.
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Nov 19, 2024
In this month’s report, we saw contraction in the overall aggregate, with a decline of 0.3% month-over-month for a year-over-year decline of 0.3%.
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Nov 15, 2024
Overall input cost inflation has been accelerating again in recent months, driven almost entirely by increases on the Services side.
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Oct 22, 2024
The index of Total Industrial Production fell by 0.3% month over month in the September data, for a 0.6% year over year decline.
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Oct 21, 2024
PPI for All Commodities fell by 1.2% month over month in the September data, for a 2.5% year over year fall.
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Sep 17, 2024
In the August data release, domestic industrial production rebounded from an idiosyncratically weak July report.
