PriceStats

"Investors on the edge of their seats about inflation’s next move don’t have to wait until mid-March to find out how prices changed this month. PriceStats, a Cambridge, Mass., firm that tracks prices of millions of items sold online, produces a measure of U.S. consumer prices daily."

Can’t Wait a Month for Inflation Data? Daily Gauge Shows Prices in Real Time PriceStats, based on MIT's Billion Prices Project, takes a daily temperature using online sales.

Roberto will be speaking today at the 2015 NABE Industry Conference at the Boston Fed

NABE - IC2015 NABE is headed to Boston for "Big Data Analytics at Work: New Tools for Corporate and Industry Economics." The event will convene June 16-17, 2015, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston in downtown Boston, MA.