{"id":348285,"date":"2025-09-19T15:25:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T20:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/19\/everyday-prices-still-going-up-and-big-mac-for-me-but-not-for-thee\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T15:25:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T20:25:54","slug":"everyday-prices-still-going-up-and-big-mac-for-me-but-not-for-thee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/19\/everyday-prices-still-going-up-and-big-mac-for-me-but-not-for-thee\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyday Prices (Still) Going Up \u2013 and Big Mac for Me, but not for Thee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-58062\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<!-- .entry-header -->&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>From the American Institute for Economic Research, compared to CPI, and CPI for fast food\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cpi_epipix.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58063\" src=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cpi_epipix.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"864\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cpi_epipix.png 864w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cpi_epipix-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cpi_epipix-768x499.png 768w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cpi_epipix-624x405.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Figure 1:<\/strong> CPI all urban (blue), Everyday Price Index (tan), and CPI for limited service restaurants (green), all in logs, 2025M01=0. CPI for limited service restaurants seasonally adjusted by authro using X-13. Source: BLS, <a href=\"https:\/\/aier.org\/category\/everyday-price-index\/\">AIER<\/a>, and author\u2019s calculations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For the year-to-date, the annualized inflation rate for fast food, or for the AIER everyday prices, is 2.9%.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content -->&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\tThis entry was posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2025\/09\/everyday-prices-still-going-up\" title=\"12:23 pm\" rel=\"bookmark\"><time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2025-09-19T12:23:03-07:00\">September 19, 2025<\/time><\/a><span class=\"by-author\"> by <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/author\/menzie_chinn\" title=\"View all posts by Menzie Chinn\" rel=\"author\">Menzie Chinn<\/a><\/span><\/span>.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- .entry-meta -->&#13;\n\t<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2025\/09\/everyday-prices-still-going-up\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] &#13; &#13; &#13; From the American Institute for Economic Research, compared to CPI, and CPI for fast food\u2026 Figure 1: CPI all urban (blue),<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":348286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}