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Lies, damned lies, and year-on-year inflation rates

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This article is an on-site version of Martin Sandbu’s Free Lunch newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every Thursday We’re coming up to a series of important central

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Year-on-Year PCE Price Inflation and Some Trend Measures

Instantaneous, instantaneous core, and trimmed mean m/m. Figure 1: Year-on-Year PCE inflation (bold black), instantaneous PCE inflation (blue), instantaneous core PCE inflation (green), and 16% trimmed mean PCE inflation, m/m AR (red).  NBER defined peak-to-trough recession dates shaded gray.  Instantaneous inflation setting T=12, a=4 per Eeckhout. Source: BEA, Dallas Fed, NBER, and author’s calculations. This

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Heavy truck sales up 15% year-on-year in June

To Estimated risk per 07/07/2023 13:31:00 Yesterday, BEA released its estimate for June car sales. This graph shows heavy truck sales since 1967 using BEA data. The dotted line is the seasonally adjusted annual sales rate (SAAR) for June 2023. Heavy truck sales really collapsed during the Great Recession, dropping to a low of 180,000

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New home sales rise to 763,000 year-on-year in May

To Estimated risk per 06/27/2023 10:06:00 AM Census Bureau reports New home sales in May were 763,000 seasonally adjusted (SAAR). The previous three months were slightly revised down in aggregate. Sales of New Single-Family Homes in May 2023 seasonally adjusted annual rate 763,000, according to estimates released today jointly by the US Census Bureau and

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