The LIFOPro team would like to acknowledge an article recently published by The Tax Policy Center (you can read the article for yourself here) suggesting LIFO repeal for the gas + oil industry. The LIFO Coalition, whose mission is working on behalf of its members to protect the ability of businesses to use the LIFO […]
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released May 2022 Producer Price Indexes (PPI) today. Highlights are as follows (all indexes on a seasonally unadjusted basis): Farm products rose 2.3% in the last month and increased 26.4% in the last twelve months Processed foods + feeds increased 0.8% from April 2022 and rose 11.8% since May […]
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released May 2022 Consumer Price Indexes (CPI) today. Highlights are as follows (all indexes are on a seasonally unadjusted basis): The all items index rose 1.1% over the last month and increased 8.6% over the last twelve months Commodities, less food + energy commodities, rose 0.4% from April 2022 […]
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released April 2022 Producer Price Indexes (PPI) today. Highlights are as follows (all indexes are on a seasonally unadjusted basis): Farm products rose 4.9% in the last month and increased 35.6% in the last twelve months Processed foods + feeds increased 2.5% from March 2022 and rose by 13.6% […]
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released April 2022 Consumer Price Indexes (CPI) today. Highlights are as follows (all indexes are on a seasonally unadjusted basis): The all items index rose 0.6% in the last month and increased 8.3% in the last twelve months Commodities, less food + energy commodities, remained flat from March to […]
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released March 2022 Producer Price Index (PPI) today. Farm products rose 8.6% in the last month and increased 35.6% in the last twelve months. Processed foods + feeds rose 2.0% from February 2022 and increased 13.7% since March 2021. Textile products + apparel increased 0.5% in the last month […]
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released March 2022 Consumer Price Index (CPI) today. The all items index rose 1.3% in the last month and increased 8.5% in the last twelve months. Energy rose 11.4% from February 2022 and increased by 32.0% from March 2021. Commodities, less food + energy commodities, decreased 0.1% in the […]
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released February 2022 Producer Price Index (PPI) today. Farm products rose 5.6% in the last month and increased 25.9% in the last twelve months. Processed foods + feeds rose by 1.9% from January 2022 and increased 12.8% from February 2021. Textile products + apparel increased 1.5% in the last […]
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released February 2022 Consumer Price Index (CPI) today. The all items index rose 0.9% in the last month and increased 7.9% in the last twelve months. Used cars + trucks increased 0.8% from January 2022 and rose 41.2% since February 2021. Gasoline (all types) increased 5.4% in the last […]
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released January 2022 Producer Price Index (PPI) today. Farm products rose 2.2% in the last month and increased 22.2% in the last twelve months. Processed foods + feeds rose by 1.6% from December 2021 and increased 12.6% from January 2021. Textile products + apparel rose 0.7% in the last […]
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released January 2022 Consumer Price Indexes (CPI) today. The all items index rose 0.8% in the last month and increased 7.5% in the last twelve months. All items, less food + energy, increased 0.7% between December 2021 and January 2022 and rose 6.0% from January 2021 to January 2022. […]
For many years prior to October 2021, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) published preliminary Producer Price Indexes (PPI) in the middle of the month proceeding each index release. For example, the BLS released January ’23 PPI on February 16th of this year. (final January indexes will be released four months from now or in […]
