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Inflation, Part 2: How Do We Construct and Choose an Index?
Abstract: Both the CPI and the PCE price indexes measure the prices of consumer goods and services— but they differ in important ways.
Keywords: inflation; consumer price index (CPI); personal consumption expenditures (PCE);
https://doi.org/10.20955/es.2022.16
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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Part of Series: Economic Synopses
Publication Date: 2022-06-22
Issue: 16
Pages: 1-3