Talk:Core inflation

Does anyone know where I can actually find the experimental Consumer Price Index for the Elderly in an actual percentage. DOL (US Govt) does not actually have published on its sight--supposedly according to their site they have followed it since 1984?Kaised1 07:09, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Fixed citation problems
Fixed the citation problems. Converted all refs to new format. Added a "Recent numbers" heading for recent data already in article, which probably should be expressed as a table.--John Nagle 18:18, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Better definition ??
Would`t be a better definition :

Core inflation is a measure of inflation which excludes the items with the highest inflation rate e.g. food and gas.

So, according to the FED, food and gas are not core Personal consumption expenditures !

What does that kind of official definition (of core inflation) say about the decency/honesty of todays america ?? 79.210.104.232 (talk) 10:03, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Since food and gas do not have the highest inflation rate, that would not be a better definition. 67.59.53.171 (talk) 01:33, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

What is "chained dollars"?
What is the "chaining" this article talks about? --99.163.50.12 (talk) 17:18, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
 * See chained dollars – link added, thanks!
 * —Nils von Barth (nbarth) (talk) 00:52, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

No longer used by the Fed
According to http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/economic-intelligence/2012/01/26/federal-reserve-abandons-core-consumer-price-index, the Fed announced on January 25, 2012, that it would henceforth use "the deflator for personal consumption expenditures, which is the broadest measure of prices in the economy. The Fed made a fundamental policy change in moving away from the concept of core Consumer Price Index which excludes food and energy, as its key inflation measure."

Could someone please update this article to reflect this change -- or explain why it does not need to be changed? I'm not an economist, so it would not be easy for me to get all the nuances right. Thanks, DavidMCEddy (talk) 17:36, 12 April 2013 (UTC)