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February 20, 2014 by Leave a Comment

InflationData.com is the Premiere Inflation Site. We have been publishing inflation related information since 1997 and our goal is to provide you with the best inflation (and deflation) related information on the web in a friendly readable format without all the government speak.

The key components on this site are the Current Inflation Rate listed in the box to the right for the current month and in table form for the most recent years. The Historical Inflation Rate is available in table form all the way back to the beginning when the government first began tracking it in 1913. Blog posts can be found under New Articles.

The inflation rate is actually calculated from the difference between Current Consumer Price Index and the Consumer price index a year ago. So we track the Historical Consumer Price Index.

The Consumer Price Index is calculated monthly by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. They pick a date and set the index equal to 100 (currently they use an average of the date range from 1982-1984). The index that we use is called the (CPI-U) which stands for "Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers".  This is used to calculate what is commonly called the "inflation rate".

The government calculates this to one decimal place. So the typical annual inflation rate would be something like 2.5%. At InflationData.com we calculate the inflation rate to two decimal places since it could actually be 2.45% or 2.54% and it would still be considered 2.5% by the BLS. We feel that the "finer view" will allow us to get a better picture of the economic condition.

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Most inflation is tracked on an Annual basis but sometimes it is helpful to see inflation on a monthly basis, see our Monthly Inflation Rate Table.
 
We believe a picture is worth a thousand words so we also provide a graphical view of the Annual Inflation Chart. If you don't feel like using the CPI index to calculate the inflation rate between two dates yourself you can use our Inflation Calculator.

 

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InflationData.com is dedicated to providing you with the most  current Inflation Rate Data on the web, in addition to  information on the other  monetary activities  of the Federal Government and US Treasury.
 

Our goal at InflationData.com is to provide articles on Inflation and the Consumer Price Index in an easily readable format rather than in "Government-speak".

By understanding  inflation economic theory and the factors involved in inflation  you should be able to make better decisions regarding home ownership, real estate, insurance, trade stocks, credit cards, business and investments.

We are primarily devoted to providing inflation and economics information for the United States but we do have a few foreign inflation links on our FAQ page.

After years of publishing our paper newsletter Financial Trend Forecaster , we began publishing on the web on August 26, 1996 and we have been publishing continuously ever since.  Today we publish three sites Financial Trend Forecaster, a site dedicated to stock and inflation projections, InflationData.com a site dedicated to providing complete historical inflation information and YourFamilyFinances.com a site dedicated to providing good reliable family investment and money management information.

Our most valuable resource though is the Moore Inflation Predictor. It accurately projects the direction and magnitude of the inflation rate one year into the future. 

The Moore Inflation Predictor, NYSE Rate of Change (ROC)©, NASDAQ Rate of Change (ROC)© and Gold vs Oil Chart can still be found on the Financial Trend Forecaster website.

If we can do anything to make this site more useful to you please contact us.

Tim McMahon, Editor
InflationData.com
The Place for Current Inflation Information

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Who are we and what is our background?

Tim McMahon is the editor of InflationData.com "The Place in Cyberspace for inflation data" and the editor of Financial Trend Forecaster in addition to the editor of Your Family Finances. He has also written a book on Geographic Tongue and other tongue problems called Healthy Tongue Secrets.