Here We Go Again on Inflation: Used Vehicle Prices Jump in January, Expected to Jump More in Record Tax-Refund Season by Wolf Richter • Feb 6, 2026 • 71 Comments Tax refunds make great down-payments which are great for higher prices. Every year, the industry salivates over it. But this year will be special.
Producer Price Index Jumps on Disconcerting Spike in Services PPI. Food & Energy Prices Fall by Wolf Richter • Jan 30, 2026 • 20 Comments Core goods prices rise as companies distribute the tariffs amongst each other.
Energy Inflation for Households: Electricity, Natural Gas Piped to the Home, Gasoline, and Other Fuels by Wolf Richter • Jan 19, 2026 • 88 Comments Demand for electricity has surged, and so has the price.
Food Inflation Gets Hot, but Not Every Item: A Look at Beef, Chicken, Coffee, Eggs, Dairy, Fruit & Vegetables, “Other Foods” by Wolf Richter • Jan 15, 2026 • 74 Comments CPI for “Food at home” jumped in December and is up 30% since January 2020. The CPI for restaurant food is even hotter.
Bad-Joke Housing CPIs, Absurd Health Insurance CPI Still Mar Today’s CPI Report, Repress Year-over-Year CPI Inflation by Wolf Richter • Jan 13, 2026 • 210 Comments My frustration is boiling over. This is very serious. A lot depends on halfway accurate CPI inflation readings.
Asking Rents in 33 Bigger Cities: Where they Spike, Rise more Slowly, or Fall. US Rents for Single-Family Homes Surge, Pull Further away from Multifamily by Wolf Richter • Dec 30, 2025 • 53 Comments Rents spiked in San Francisco, Chicago, NY City, Rochester, Kansas City… rose more slowly in others… fell in Austin, Denver, San Antonio, Phoenix…
Today’s Doctored CPI Inflation Release is like a Bad Joke, but Very Serious (though it Suits the Administration’s Narrative) by Wolf Richter • Dec 18, 2025 • 280 Comments No CPI data for October, partially made-up CPI data for November, and now 3 months’ of doctored OER data which weighs 26% of overall CPI.
Services Inflation Accelerates Further in the Euro Area, Drives Overall & Core CPI Higher by Wolf Richter • Dec 2, 2025 • 20 Comments Services inflation was on the ECB’s worry-list when it kept rates unchanged for the third meeting in a row.
New Vehicle Inflation: the “WOLF STREET Ford F-150 XLT & Toyota Camry LE Price Index” Going back to 1990 v. CPI by Wolf Richter • Nov 28, 2025 • 112 Comments Now updated with the prices for the 2026 model year.
PPI Inflation Bounces Back by Wolf Richter • Nov 25, 2025 • 23 Comments Food and energy prices spiked in the delayed Producer Price Index for September.
