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Health care services depress recent PCE inflation readings


Abstract: Health care services, which historically helped push core measures of inflation higher, have restrained recent readings. Among them is the personal consumption expenditures price index, favored by Federal Reserve policymakers deliberating interest rate changes.

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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Part of Series: Economic Letter

Publication Date: 2016-08

Volume: 11

Issue: 11

Pages: 1-4