Macro
Inflation (CPI)
How fast prices are rising, measured through a basket of everyday goods and services.
See also
Trimmed-Mean CPI
A version of inflation that ignores the most extreme price swings to show the underlying trend.
Stagflation
The worst combination: high inflation and a stagnant economy at the same time.
Federal Funds Rate
The interest rate the US central bank sets, and the one that quietly sets everyone else's.
PCE (Personal Consumption Expenditures)
The Fed's own preferred inflation gauge, a close cousin of CPI with a slightly different formula.
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