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6 guides in Finabase Learn
- Core inflation: why food and energy are left out What core inflation is, why it drops food and energy, how much monthly CPI noise it removes, and how to annualize and read core prints.
- Inflation: what it is, how it’s measured and what it does to money What inflation is, what causes it, how CPI and PCE measure it, why the Fed aims for 2%, and how rising prices affect cash, bonds and stocks, with 1948–2026 data.
- Oil prices and the economy: WTI, Brent, gasoline and inflation How crude oil is priced, the difference between WTI and Brent, how oil reaches gasoline and CPI, and what 40 years of EIA price data show about booms and busts.
- PCE inflation: the Fed’s preferred gauge vs the CPI What the PCE price index measures, why the Fed’s 2% goal uses it instead of the CPI, the formula, weight and scope differences, and how the two gauges compare since 2015.
- The CPI report: how BLS builds it and how to read it How the Consumer Price Index is built (basket, weights, shelter and owners’ equivalent rent), what headline and core mean, and how to read m/m and y/y changes.
- The economic calendar: when US data come out and how to read them When the jobs report, CPI, GDP, retail sales and FOMC decisions are released, who publishes them, and how to read the consensus, actual and prior columns.
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