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Summary & Discussion After Kevin Warsh's professed interest in Trimmed Mean PCE at his confirmation hearing, we published updated nowcasts for all PCE inflation gauges, including Trimmed Mean and Median inflation, as well as updated estimates for Headline, Core, and Supercore PCE. Compared to those nowcasts, we didn&

Summary We pride ourselves on being among the closest in our forecasts / nowcasts of Core PCE, especially after receiving all of the relevant information from CPI, PPI, and import prices. January proved to be an uncharacteristic miss for us (8-9bps too high on Core PCE). We would be suspicious of