Health care services depress recent PCE inflation readings

Jim Dolmas

Economic Letter, 2016, vol. 11, issue 11, 4 pages

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.

Date: 2016
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