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An announcement that is as personal as professional:
18 months ago, we started collecting online prices in real time to track how Liberation Day tariffs were feeding into inflation.
A lot has happened since. The BLS commissioner was fired. The longest government shutdown in US history meant CPI wasn’t published for the first time. And the case for an independent measure of inflation became much stronger.
What started as a tariff inflation tracker has since grown into something much bigger:
The Bloomberg Price Project (BPP), our attempt to build the US CPI from the ground up using alternative data.
Today, BPP covers 87% of the CPI basket, across both goods and services (more new data will be added in coming weeks). Every month, we collect millions of prices from card transactions, e-commerce sites, grocery stores, pharmacies, rental listings, corporate data, Bloomberg Terminal market prices and government records. And more data are coming.
The payoff is detail. Official CPI data let you drill down to categories such as “uncooked beef steaks.” BPP goes much deeper — breaking the CPI basket into almost 700 line items, compared with roughly 200 in the official data.
Brought to you by: myself, Troy Durie, Daniel Ripperger-Suhler, Joshua Danial and Scott Johnson from across Bloomberg Economics.
Explore the Bloomberg Price Project at BECO MODELS BPP <GO>, or download the data at ECAN US BPI <GO>.
I believe the paywall on Bloomberg.com is coming down briefly so you can read this without a subscription (but you should subscribe!)
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NEW: US Central Command has made multiple changes to its lethal targeting process and boosted how it uses AI to help vet intelligence following a deadly strike against a school in Minab, Iran, according to US officials and people familiar with matter.
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SCOOP: Marco Rubio delivered a tough message to Mexican Foreign Minister Roberto Velasco on Wednesday, sources tell me: Trump wants #Mexico to crack down on undocumented migrants crossing the US border – particularly Mexico’s own citizens.
The push is led by Homeland Security Adviser Stephen Miller.
My story:
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How many military strikes has the US launched in Trump's second term? We compiled every strike acknowledged by the Pentagon. The total: 14,415 worldwide.
The data shows Trump's preference to use military force to pursue goals, and more strikes may already be on the horizon (1/5)
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NEW: From an office a few blocks from the White House, a group of former Wall Streeters known as “Deal Team Six” is at the forefront of the Pentagon’s plan to crack China’s critical-minerals stranglehold:
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An important story about the extraordinary fact that Jared Kushner is helping to lead US efforts to negotiate with Iran. A country his father-in-law has gone to war with, in coordination with Israel.
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THE BIG TAKE: As Apple turns 50, the wheels of succession are in motion. John Ternus is the company's "nice guy" CEO heir apparent. The most in-depth look at Ternus, his growing empire and Apple’s Tim Cook succession plans to date. bloomberg.com/features/2026-…
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Last year, President Donald Trump dispatched a chainsaw-wielding billionaire to loudly eliminate more than 300,000 federal jobs in an unsparing attempt to shrink the government.
Now, the Trump administration is quietly hiring again.
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Our father, Derk Sauer, has passed away. It’s an immeasurable loss, and no words can truly capture what a remarkable father and husband he was. He dedicated his life to defending independent Russian media. In his final days, he asked that people continue to support the free press
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one surprise target of today's tariffs: (literally) an island inhabited by penguins
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Trump's richest backer meets Trump's favorite word. Musk & Tesla are fighting to stave off massive tariffs on the Chinese graphite they need for EV batteries, an early test of Musk's influence versus Trump's economic ideas.
w @sdonnan @business
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Orban, Macron, Meloni are competing for Trump’s ear as Europe’s voice bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @bpolitics
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Trump is poised to name KEVIN HASSETT as his NEC director
w/ @nancook + @AmandaGordon
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And an addendum...
This photo essay on the New Americans getting ready to vote in Georgia by photographer Krisanne Johnson with reporting by my @economics colleague @Jonnelle was another real highlight of our swing-state reporting this year.
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We’ve written a lot at @economics @bpolitics & @business about the swing states economy.
Why? Those 7 states will decide the election & polls show the economy is top of mind for voters. Which means what the economy looks like in those states matters.
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Protest in China. Who's watching? A thread. 1/11
For years, documenting protests in China was a task for activists. Now, it’s capturing the attention of investors who are trying to predict if Beijing will pivot to a bazooka stimulus
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Smart reporting here by my colleague @TheAmaraReport for @economics. Harris is making an economic pitch to Black voters. But the context is tough because the racial wealth gap in America has only been growing…
Kamala Harris says she won't shy away from " the history and the disparities that exist for specific communities."
So I took a look at her economic pitch to Black voters against the context of a wealth gap that, despite recent progress, remains stubborn.
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How Russia hacked the entire nation of Georgia — from its Foreign Ministry, Finance Ministry and central bank to energy companies, oil terminals, telecoms providers and media platforms — according to documents seen by Bloomberg
Story by @AlbertoNardelli
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How a Russian missile loaded with Western technology killed a 6-year-old girl in Ukraine. We go deep into one attack and reveal that Analog Devices is the company whose components are most frequently found in Russian missiles. Featuring the terrific work of the @kse_ua and the brilliant @bilousova_o bloomberg.com/features/2024-…
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Read The Big Take: A Norwegian port sits on the edge of the most viable polar shipping route linking China to Europe. As sea ice retreats, it's become a major prize in Beijing’s ambitions for the Arctic.
🔗🚢🧊🇳🇴: bloomberg.com/features/2024-…
ALT A map of the Arctic, with the Northern Sea Route and Northern Passage between the Bering Strait and Europe annotated in orange. The Sea Route ends in Murmansk in Russia and Kirkenes in Norway, while the Passage continues south along Norway’s coast.