Anna Wong
@AnnaEconomist
Chief US Economist, Bloomberg LP @economics. Former Fed/CEA/US Treasury, PhD @uchi_economics BA @UCberkeley. All opinions are my own.
Joined May 2022
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My team has been working in the past year to solve problems like these. Watch this space for the Bloomberg Price Project.
One problem with using pricing information from big box retailers like Walmart is that they are a small share of the consumption basket, with no footprint in huge categories like housing, health care. To date, alternative inflation data based on retailers hasn't been a reliable predictor of CPI or PCE.
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