Fed Vice-Chair Brainard said that “nonhousing services are running at about 4.4 percent annualized inflation on a 3-month basis.” Matt Klein suggested that she’s using PCE numbers. I can only find Services PCE numbers until November because of the known one month lag in PCE. But the signal in the more recent CPI numbers cannot be summarily thrown out. T…
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