Aug 12, 2021

Consumer price index shows less inflation. The producer price index shows more. What’s happening?

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Making sense of dueling inflation numbers.

DIane Swonk helps us make sense of the what the consumer and producer price indexes are telling us.

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The team

David Brancaccio Host

Victoria Craig Host, BBC

Stephen Ryan Senior Producer, BBC

Jonathan Frewin Producer, BBC

Daniel Shin Producer

Jay Siebold Technical Director

Brian Allison Engineer

Meredith Garretson Morbey Senior Producer

Erika Soderstrom Producer

Rose Conlon Producer

Alex Schroeder Producer

Redmond Carolipio Digital Producer

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