Food and energy have very high variance. The Fed uses core CPI, which excludes food and energy, as an important gauge of price changes. The data I quoted was th

Food and energy have very high variance. The Fed uses core CPI, which excludes food and energy, as an important gauge of price changes. The data I quoted was the core CPI data (also from BLS). To use the non-core CPI numbers for the last two months is really cherry picking, especially with how much energy costs were down last month.