Fed Policy

Most of the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation gauges are sourced from Consumer Price Index (CPI) data, but Producer Price Index (PPI) input data is of increasing relevance, import price index (IPI) data can prove occasionally relevant. There are also some high-leverage components that only come out on the day

There was a lot to like from the FOMC press conference this week. Here are the highlights from Powell’s press conference.

Our inflation previews are typically released to the public with a delay relative to what we provide to our exclusive High Frequency Descriptive Analysis (HFDA) distribution subscribers. The release of the revised seasonal factors led to the idiosyncratic delay in making this particular preview public, but at least for the

Whether or not we see another boom in productivity is a question of policy, not a question of fate.