Inflation Insights: What the Numbers Mean | Optimal Insights #shorts

Indexed: 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]Expected value right now is going to be up 0.6% which puts us at a total year-over-year of 3.8%.

[00:00:07]That's just a generalized number. It's 2.7% core, which strips out the most volatile piece right now being, you know, food and of course energy in the form of gasoline. As you said, California's looking at some pretty high gas prices. As this war continues, we may see this continue to see that spread between core and the actual number kind of continue to widen.

[00:00:32]We expect all goods, all services to slowly be pushed up over time, but if gasoline keeps on its kind of precipitous rise, that spread will continue.

[00:00:43]Wednesday will come around to PPI, so we'll get to see where the inflation is hitting producers.