On the program today, all the economic data you could possibly want, and then some from American public media.

This is Marketplace.

In Los Angeles, I'm Carl Rizzo. It is Thursday, today, the very last day of July

2025. Good as always to have you along, everybody. I said earlier this week, Monday, I think,

that this was going to be a very economic data intensive week. And look at this. I was right. The biggie is, of course, yet to come.

The July jobs report is tomorrow. But today brought us the personal consumption expenditures price

index. Everybody say it with me now. The Federal Reserve's preferred measure of inflation.

Prices up 3 tenths percent in June, that's month to month. 2.6% from a year ago. Those are the headline numbers.

Core data, which takes out food and energy, was actually a little bit higher.

Point being, incremental though the increases were, prices are going up.

Marketplace to Subri Beneshire explains what is happening.

It's getting a little more expensive to buy a flight and have a vacation.

In particular, it's costing Americans more to travel abroad.

Omer Sharif is president of inflation insights.

It's getting a little more expensive to live in a home.

Shelter continues to add.

And then we had a pretty big bump up in health care costs as well in June.

And it is getting more expensive to just buy stuff.

Things like apparel, appliances, furniture, and bedding, TVs.

On a month-over-month basis, they increase by 0.53%. We haven't had a number

that strong since January of 2023. Back in December, the yearly inflation rate for goods,

excluding autos, was two-tenths of a percent. In June, it was one-and-one-tenth percent.

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