Now that the final Michigan poll for June is out, we have this picture:
Figure 1: Year by year actual CPI inflation (bold black), and expected inflation from University of Michigan (red), NY Fed (green), Survey of Professional Forecasts (green +), Coibion-Gorodnichenko SoFIE mean (blue squares) , and unit cost growth rate (chartreuse), all in %. Source: BLS, U.Michigan via FRED, Philadelphia Fed, Atlanta Fed, Cleveland Fed, and author’s statistics.
With CPI inflation running about 0.45 ppts faster than PCE inflation over the 1986-2024 period, we are close to the 2% PCE inflation target, at least as far as the SPF is concerned, perhaps half a ppt from the survey. Michigan (which historically has been ranked higher in terms of forecast errors). Note that unit cost expectations (Atlanta Fed) do not suggest imminent cost compression.
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