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Re:U.S. Consumer Prices Rose Strongly Again in May by bachmeier on Thursday June 10, 2021 @09:39AM (#27460611)
Interestingly, it's about 5% annualized over the last month, 5% versus May 2020, and 5% growth vs May 2019. Not that any of those three numbers means much because pandemic.

Source: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIAUCSL#0

May 2019: 255.371 May 2020: 255.942 Apr 2021: 266.832 May 2021: 268.551

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Re:U.S. Consumer Prices Rose Strongly Again in May by gruez on Thursday June 10, 2021 @09:46AM (#27460688)
>Interestingly, it's about 5% annualized over the last month, 5% versus May 2020

thanks, edited that in too.

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Re:U.S. Consumer Prices Rose Strongly Again in May by tomp on Thursday June 10, 2021 @10:52AM (#27461428)
I was confused by your edit which says "annualized == YOY" which isn't generally true, just specifically for May 2021.
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