DeludedRaven OP t1_jef690t wrote on March 31, 2023 at 3:51 PM

Reply to comment by theBarneyBus in ELI5:Why do we exclude the price of things like Food, Housing and Energy costs when looking at the total number for inflation? by DeludedRaven

I was reading a NYT article and often times on the graphs they have inflation separated from inflation on things like food and energy.

If you combined the two inflation would be something like 12%

But they only have it as 6%.

Potato_Octopi t1_jefs9ax wrote on March 31, 2023 at 6:14 PM

CPI shows all categories that consumers spend money on. You can exclude whatever parts you want to exclude for whatever reason. But it's all in there as a starting point. You can look at actual CPI reports for free you know..