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Setting up a script to estimate missing October 2025 CPI data, Mike Konczal notes

Setting up a script to estimate missing October 2025 CPI data, Mike Konczal notes
Interpolating October 2025 CPI data values

Mike Konczal described setting up a script to interpolate missing October 2025 Consumer Price Index (CPI) values in order to calculate his own year-over-year change figures ahead of tomorrow morning's official U.S. government release.

Konczal has recently analyzed U.S. labor market updates, noting in the October 2026 jobs report that 165,000 jobs were added with unemployment at 4.14%. He also compared current hiring, quits, and job openings to prior years when unemployment was near 4.14% in a separate analysis on labor market conditions. These reviews provide additional context to his approach to inflation data.

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