Core Services Inflation is Sticky, but the Fed is Exerting a Lot of Pressure Core CPI services inflation is still sticky; the Fed’s favored measure of services ex-energy and rents rose 0.36% in January, slowing only trivially—well within the mar gin of measurement error—from the 0.39%—increase in December. The usual culprits misbehaved again, with vehicle repair prices up a startling…
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