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U.S. Inflation
Consumer prices, headline and core, change from a year earlier, %
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
All items · Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 30 days
Core (excluding food and energy) · Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 30 days
Dashed: the projection from the latest reading. Shaded: the range about two in three outcomes land in. A projection, not a promise.
Headline and core consumer price inflation. Core leaves out food and energy, the most volatile items, so it shows the underlying trend.
What this chart reads
- Consumer Price Indexas “All items”latest 2026-09-01
- Core CPIas “Core (excluding food and energy)”latest 2026-09-01
Sources
Consumer Price Index. Source: The Bureau of Labor Statistics collects prices monthly from roughly 4,000 housing units and 26,000 retail establishments across 87 urban areas. Palanor pulls the series from the FRED API nightly.
Core CPI. Source: The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes this series monthly. Palanor pulls it from the FRED API nightly.
Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.