Dashboards Macro and the Fed
Inflation and labour
Inflation prints alongside the monthly jobs report.
How to read it
The line is consumer price inflation: the change in the CPI over the same month a year earlier. The bars are the jobs the economy added or lost each month (nonfarm payrolls, in thousands). Together they are the two halves of the Fed's mandate: stable prices and maximum employment. Both are revised after release; the figures here are the latest vintage.
Core CPI, PCE prices and core PCE prices (the Fed's preferred gauge) can be drawn beside headline CPI. Pick a month to start from. The Unemployment view draws the unemployment rate, the other half of the labour picture.
Source
US Bureau of Labor Statistics: CPI for all urban consumers, seasonally adjusted (CPIAUCSL), and total nonfarm payrolls (PAYEMS), served by FRED. A month without a release is left blank. Core CPI (CPILFESL), PCE and core PCE price indexes from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (PCEPI, PCEPILFE) and the unemployment rate (UNRATE), served by FRED.
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