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Teaching about inflation trends | Bring FRED into the Classroom | October 2026

Teaching about inflation trends | Bring FRED into the Classroom | October 2026

October 5, 2026

Visualizing inflation trends

This assignment provides instructions on building the graph below and includes writing prompts for out-of-class assignments.

From the FRED Blog

The post "Measuring inflation trends" describes two different data series commonly used by economists to monitor trends in personal consumption expenditures (PCE) inflation: core PCE and trimmed mean PCE.

Use this short video to teach about inflation and wages

This short video describes how to use FRED data to answer the question "Have wages kept up with inflation?"
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