Year-over-year PCE inflation jumped to 3.8 percent. The Fed wants 2.0 percent.
Five Measures of Inflation Percent Change from Year Ago
- CPI: 3.81
- Core CPI: 2.75
- CPI Rent: 2.79
- PCE: 3.77
- Core PCE: 3.29
PCE Inflation Detail
PCE Year-Over-Year Details
- PCE bottomed in April of 2024 at 2.3 percent, now 3.8 percent.
- Core PCE bottomed in April of 2024 at 2.6 percent, now 3.3 percent.
- PCE goods bottomed in September of 2024 at -1.2 percent now 4.4 percent.
- PCE services bottomed at 3.3 percent in February of 2026, now 3.5 percent.
PCE Month-Over-Month
PCE Month-Over-Month Details
- PCE: 0.40 percent
- Core PCE: 0.24 percent
- PCE Goods: 0.73 percent
- PCE Services: 0.25 percent
Angry US Consumers
US consumers are downright angry and it reflects in the polls.
Angry consumers also shows up in two key measures of sentiment and consumer credit delinquencies.
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Thank you Jewish billionaires for your dual? loyalty, buying our congress and president, and removing Thomas Massie since he is one of the few who isn’t bought, and pushing for a war with Iran that is not in America’s best interests and that has driven up prices.