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What would be our current rate of inflation if "Energy and Food prices" were figured into the equation like it

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was when Jimmy Carter was President?

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  1. Sure. This is called 'Headline Inflation', and differs from 'core inflation' in that energy and food prices are equated.

    Take a look at this graph from the Bureau of Labor Statistics:

    http://stlouisfed.org/publications/cb/20...

    I hope that helped.


  2. That would be an incredibly difficult calculation. The construction of CPI has changed several times since then, and you'd have to go back to reconstruct it without all of those changes.The data to do so might not even be available.
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