Key Points
- Commerce Department indexes that the Fed relies on heavily for inflation signals showed prices continuing to climb at a rate still considerably higher than the 2% annual goal.
- The stubborn inflation data raised several ominous specters, namely that the Fed may have to keep rates elevated for longer or even have to hike at some point.
- Thus far, the economy has managed to avoid broader damage from the inflation problem, though there are some notable cracks.
I’m afraid to ask this, but is that adjusted for inflation and normalized by business entity or similar? I know corporate greed is out of control, I’m just trying to figure out if that graph is good representative data or not.