Rising food prices and falling gasoline prices are indeed what we are likely to see when the November Consumer Price Index data is published. Inflation and deflation will be present, just as they ultimately have been present for quite some time within the data.
That consumer price data frequently shows such bipolar behavior is a reminder that there are many layers within that data, and to properly understand the data we have to peel back all of those layers. We have to look at the individual details to truly understand the data overall.
Links And Sources
Cleveland Federal Reserve InflationNow Nowcast https://www.clevelandfed.org/indicators-and-data/inflation-nowcasting
Consumer Price Inflation Year On Year https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1BL94
Consumer Price Inflation Month on Month https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1BL9d
Brent Crude and West Texas Intermediate Futures (January Contract) https://archive.ph/sQVCZ
Reformulated Gasoline Futures (January Contract) https://archive.ph/ZMS7c
AAA National Average Gas Prices https://gasprices.aaa.com/
EIA Weekly Gas and Diesel Prices https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_pri_gnd_dcus_nus_w.htm
GasBuddy Retail Gas Prices https://www.gasbuddy.com/charts
Food Price Inflation Month On Month https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1BL8O
Commodities Indices https://archive.ph/i4W26
S&P Flash Manufacturing PMI https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/manufacturing-pmi
S&P Flash Services PMI https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/services-pmi
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