Bloomberg Businessweek May 23rd 2022 pp26-27 |Indicators|”Inflation Comes in Many Flavors”
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“There’s more to a consumer price index than meets the eye. The US series…[includes]...243 item categories.” Bloomberg Businessweek “asked reporters all over the world to tell us which subindexes they’ve been tracking most closely.” Data are “annual percent change for the most recent month available as of midnight ET, May 17.”
America
Household furnishings +10.6%
Prepared salad +9.3%
College tuition +2.1%
Women’s clothing +5.3%
From around the world
Brazil Diesel +53.6%
South Africa Frozen Chicken +21.8%
Japan Cell Phone service -52.7%
Egypt Tomatoes +88%
Uganda Laundry soap +87.2%
Germany Beer +2.9%
Mexico Tortillas +17.5%
China Pork -33.3%
Australia Domestic holiday travel +4.5%
Indonesia Red chilis +28%
South Korea Kimchi +10.6%
UK Sausage rolls +4.5%