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CPI, rent, gas, groceries and consumer rates. What a household pays this month versus last.
BEA's August release showed nominal spending rising 0.9 percent while real disposable income stayed flat and the saving rate fell to 4.1 percent.
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Zillow's August rent index shows national asking rents at $1,948, accelerating for six straight months to 2.48 percent yearly growth, while CPI shelter is still decelerating at 3.03 percent, a gap that sets a floor under shelter inflation into 2027.
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August CPI-W rose 3.5 percent over the year, two of the three months that set the 2027 Social Security COLA are locked, and the September print on October 14 decides whether the raise lands near 3.2 or 3.6 percent.
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The BEA's revised PCE deflator methodology debuts in the August print on September 30, 2026, and it could shave 18 to 40 basis points off measured core inflation without changing a single household bill.
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Consumer confidence fell 6.7 points to 81.9, its lowest since April 2014, and the Conference Board's own write-ins say pump prices drove it: AAA has regular at $4.45, up 37 cents in a month, with 6.1% expected inflation now steering household math.
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AAA's September average of $4.33 a gallon breaks the 2023 record of $3.83, and with August electricity CPI already up 30.2 percent, the October 14 print inherits a household bill that is rising from the fuel side of the ledger.
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AAA's national diesel average hit an all-time record $6.5276 on September 22, 2026, up 75 percent from a year ago, and the lagged pass-through into grocery and shipped-goods prices lands in the October and November CPI prints.
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Electricity CPI jumped 5.5 percent in August, seasonally adjusted, and sits 30.2 percent above a year ago, the fastest-moving line in a 3.4 percent headline print, with rate-case pass-throughs and diesel at a record $6.53 pointing to more in the October 14 CPI.
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BLS average price data put Grade A large eggs at $2.27 a dozen in August 2026, down 36.7 percent from $3.59 a year earlier, yet food at home CPI is still up 2.2 percent year over year and gasoline is the line doing the damage.
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The 30-year fixed hit 7.03 percent, its first print above 7 since January 2025, and pump prices sit 43.6 percent above last year. August PCE lands Wednesday and decides whether the Fed hikes again.
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Freddie Mac's September 24 survey put the 30-year fixed at 7.03 percent, the first time above 7 percent since January 2025, which adds $96 a month on a $350,000 loan versus July and lands on top of an August CPI that already had households paying 3.4 percent more than a year ago.
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EIA's weekly survey put regular gasoline at $4.478 a gallon for the week of September 21, the highest print since July 2022 and 41 percent above last year, during the weeks when pump prices normally fall.
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