1/3 The September CPI was supposed to be released today. Instead, it will be released on October 24, even if the government shutdown is not over. What follows are a couple of private sector data series to get a handle on inflation. The bottom line is that the Fed is currently ignoring the problem because it wants to cut rates. Daily CPI Measures Two websites that scrape the internet for prices and compile a type of daily CPI are Truflation and Pricestats. The scrape millions of prices from websites like Amazon and Walmart. The following chart aligns three measures from Pricestats and Truflation to April 2 at 0% (Liberation Day, the vertical dotted line). It shows the period before and after.(Jim Bianco)