Summary: What does our low inflation environment mean for investors? Core Personal Consumption Expenditure Deflator. Source: Department of Commerce Inflation is an average. Prices in some areas are growing quickly, while others fall. That’s the way it has to be in a broadly diversified economy. The broadest measure of inflation—the personal consumption deflator—measures everything that consumers buy, and weights it by how much then spend on those items. It measures substitution effects. So if the cost of cotton […]
