Many companies are still working through inventory they stocked before the tariffs hit — but some products are starting to get more expensive.
Keep your eye on an inflation measure that focuses exclusively on goods except for food and energy.
Most of the time deflation is a signal of a struggling economy. Disinflation — when prices still increase, just more slowly — is the goal.
Prices may continue to stay high if services and imports rise in tandem.
These measures of inflation track the prices consumers pay and the prices producers receive for their wares. But they don’t always line up.
Motor vehicle insurance costs are up 19.2% from last year.
The consumer price index and the personal consumption expenditures price index measure the changing cost of different baskets of goods.
