John Campbell's expert opinion cited for WalletHub,"Cities Where Inflation is Rising the Most"

Cities Where Inflation is Rising the Most

Adam McCann, Financial Writer at WalletHub

Americans are still dealing with sky-high inflation, which hit a 40-year high last year. Though inflation has started to slow slightly due to factors like the Federal Reserve rate hikes, the year-over-year inflation rate was still a whopping 6.5% in December. This high inflation is driven by a variety of factors, including the continued presence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and labor shortages. The government is hoping to continue to rein in inflation with additional aggressive interest rate hikes this year, but exactly how much of an effect that will have remains to be seen.

Inflation is rising more quickly in some places than others, though. In order to determine the cities where inflation is rising the most – and thus is the biggest problem – WalletHub compared 23 major MSAs (Metropolitan Statistical Areas) across two key metrics related to the Consumer Price Index, which measures inflation. We compared the Consumer Price Index for the latest month for which BLS data is available to two months prior and one year prior to get a snapshot of how inflation has changed in the short and long term.

John Campbell, Class of 1925 Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology – Dartmouth College was asked for his expert opinion on the current inflation.

https://wallethub.com/edu/cities-inflation/107537#expert=John_L._Campbell.