How Broad-Based Is the Recent High Inflation?

Alexander Wolman

Richmond Fed Economic Brief, 2021, vol. 21, issue 30

Abstract: PCE inflation has been high from March through July. Much commentary has emphasized the contributions of a few extremely large price increases. This Economic Brief provides graphical descriptions of the recent contributions of large price increases to inflation. We then evaluate those recent contributions against their behavior over the last 25 years of low and stable inflation. We find that inflation has been somewhat higher than what one would have predicted based on the past relationship between the contributions of the largest price increases and inflation.

Keywords: Monetary; policy; and; inflation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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