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3.00@ChristopherRandles what do you mean "whole of 2022 to whole of 2023"?
Like the weird method the World Bank stats use? I think they're taking the median of the 12 headline inflation numbers over the year, which I guess is pretty close to something like the percentage change in the average CPI over all of 2023 to the average CPI over all of 2022.
Very unlikely that's what Yglesias was going for, though, Dec to Dec CPI is the normal definition of full year inflation.
@chrisjbillington here is an example:
"The inflation rate in Germany is expected to be +3.7% in December 2023. The inflation rate is measured as the change in the consumer price index (CPI) compared with the same month a year earlier. Based on the results available so far, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that consumer prices are expected to increase by 0.1% on November 2023. The annual average inflation rate is expected to stand at +5.9% in 2023."
https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Economy/Prices/Consumer-Price-Index/_node.html
@ChristopherRandles FWIW the median of US headline inflation rates in 2023 was 3.5% and the mean was 4.09%. So if it's median this can resolve NO regardless, and if there's any chance the mean is intended, this market should be priced a lot higher.
It's a weird measure not usually used in the US (it's like, smoothing twice - YoY to smooth over a year, and then averaging that number over a further year. Why not just calculate an annualised 2y rate if you want more smoothing? Very strange).
Definitely not what Yglesias meant, such that I'm not betting this market up from 0.8%.
Can we get clarity from Yglesias? Or can you just resolve this @itsTomekK? You have my word that regular YoY is what he meant, I will eat my hat if it wasnt.
@IsarBhattacharjee like I don't think a big spike is super likely but it's definitely being underpriced in the market
Why is this drifting down? In April the year over year CPI was at 5%, and the April increase was 0.4%, higher than a 4% annual rate. Meanwhile the fed is talking about pausing rate increases for bank stability (i.e. despite continued inflation). What's going to make it go down by the end of the year?
@ErickBall Year-to-date seasonally-adjusted inflation annualises to about 3.5%. What's going to make it go up?
@chrisjbillington But I'm still not going to take the buy on this bc even tho inflation is set to re accelerate, unlikely to be doing so at the 38bps average monthly clip required for YoY to be 4% on Dec CPI