The unusual rise in the Fed’s preferred PCE measure of inflation above CPI inflation in January partly reflects the impact of the differing methodology which, as spending patterns return to pre-pandemic norms, should be reversed this year. But it is also due to a broader acceleration in medical care inflation that has pushed up PCE inflation more than CPI and which is likely to prove longer lasting.
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