FRED Consumer & Producer Prices — 21 CPI, PPI And PCE Series (BLS, BEA, Atlanta Fed), Monthly 1913–2026
16,757 monthly observations across 21 US price series from FRED: headline CPI (seasonally adjusted and not), core CPI, food, energy, shelter, rent, medical care services, services, commodities, new and used vehicles and food at home; PPI all commodities, final demand, final demand less foods and energy, less foods, energy and trade services, and finished goods; the PCE and core PCE price indices; and the Atlanta Fed sticky-price core CPI. Long format with series name, frequency and unit on every row, full history from FRED as of 2026-09-06.
Use Cases
- Inflation nowcasting and component decomposition
- Real-return and deflator calculations
- Fed policy and breakeven analysis
- Pricing-power studies by sector
Methodology
One fredgraph.csv fetch per series; missing observations dropped; long format; index levels as published (base periods differ by series), sticky CPI as year-over-year percent change; values rounded to six decimals.
Update Schedule
Static snapshot. CPI and PPI mid-month, PCE at month end; refresh weekly.
Attribution
Source: FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; government-sourced series only (Federal Reserve Board, U.S. Treasury, BLS, BEA, Census Bureau, HUD, FHFA).
Schema
| name | type |
|---|---|
| series_id | string |
| series_name | string |
| frequency | string |
| unit | string |
| date | date |
| value | number |
Sample Data
| date | unit | value | frequency | series_id | series_name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968-01-01 | percent_yoy | 3.651861 | monthly | CORESTICKM159SFRBATL | Atlanta Fed Sticky Price CPI Less Food and Energy (Year-over-Year % Change) |
| 1968-02-01 | percent_yoy | 3.673819 | monthly | CORESTICKM159SFRBATL | Atlanta Fed Sticky Price CPI Less Food and Energy (Year-over-Year % Change) |
| 1968-03-01 | percent_yoy | 4.142164 | monthly | CORESTICKM159SFRBATL | Atlanta Fed Sticky Price CPI Less Food and Energy (Year-over-Year % Change) |
| 1968-04-01 | percent_yoy | 4.155828 | monthly | CORESTICKM159SFRBATL | Atlanta Fed Sticky Price CPI Less Food and Energy (Year-over-Year % Change) |
| 1968-05-01 | percent_yoy | 4.088245 | monthly | CORESTICKM159SFRBATL | Atlanta Fed Sticky Price CPI Less Food and Energy (Year-over-Year % Change) |
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# 1. Add dAgentBase once, in any MCP client. No install, no vendor keys.
# Claude.ai / Claude Desktop: Settings -> Connectors -> Add custom connector
# Cursor / Claude Code / others: mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"dagentbase": {
"url": "https://dagentbase.com/api/mcp",
"headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer dm_live_YOUR_KEY" }
}
}
}
# 2. Then ask your agent, in plain language:
# "Preview 'FRED Consumer & Producer Prices — 21 CPI, PPI and PCE Series (BLS, BEA, Atlanta Fed), Monthly 1913–2026' and, if it fits, claim it and download the files."
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