Inflation

 

• Room to grow? Inflation and labor market slack

  Compared with the usual ex-food-and-energy measure, the Dallas Fed’s Trimmed Mean PCE inflation rate sends a clearer, more reliable signal about whether cyclical inflation pressures are building.

  May 30, 2019

• Which core to believe? Trimmed mean versus ex-food-and-energy inflation

  Twice since 2014, core personal consumption expenditures (PCE) inflation—inflation excluding food and energy—decelerated sharply, only to ultimately reverse course.

  May 28, 2019

• Global Perspectives: Janet Yellen on becoming an economist, being Fed chair and views on Fed independence

  Janet Yellen holds a unique place in Federal Reserve history. It all began with a year as a humble Fed staff economist in 1977.

  April 18, 2019