The Difference Between the BLS and the Bea Index

The difference between the BLS and the bea indexes comes down to the fact that if Chicken cost a lot more money all of a sudden because of some supplies shortage or whatever or increased demand rather Then people might go to the other white meat. That was explained by Benjamin Apple bomb from the New York Times economics blog. The Fed also looks at another data set compiled by the pure the Bureau of economic analysis this gets a little wonky, but it actually does make sense.