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I always find it funny that the FED does not consider food and energy in the numbers. To the average American, if you food prices increase 50%, it is a big dea

• Black101 5y ago
  > I always find it funny that the FED does not consider food and energy in the numbers. it's not funny... they fudge the numbers to make politicians look good
• mywittyname 5y ago
  It's not all the funny when you consider that prices fluctuate so wildly that including them would make the numbers meaningless. Even though they are excluded, they are still a component of other inflation factors. Food & energy costs contribute to the cost of materials & labor. So they are included by proxy in the long term. And if you are really interested, the Fed does calculate personal consumption expenditures (PCE). See below. https://www.bea.gov/data/personal-consumption-expenditures-price-index https://www.bea.gov/data/personal-consumption-expenditures-p... https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PCE https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PCE As you can see, long term, the trend matches that of inflation. Short term, it is all over the place.