About Us

Inflation touches almost everything — what you pay for groceries, fuel, rent, a ticket home — yet the numbers behind it usually sit in dense reports that few people ever open. This site exists to close that gap. We take economic data that is already public and explain, in plain terms, what it actually says about prices around the world.

Why we built it

Most inflation coverage arrives as a single headline number for a single country, stripped of the context that makes it mean anything. We wanted something you could reason with instead — where eight economies sit side by side and you can see, at a glance, that the same global pressure lands very differently depending on where you happen to be.

What we cover

Four measures do most of the work here, and we keep coming back to how they connect. The Global Commodity Index tracks raw materials like energy and metals. The Global Food Price Index follows staple foods traded across borders. CPI is what households actually pay; GDP is the size of what an economy produces. No single one of them tells the whole story, which is exactly why we read them together rather than in isolation.

Where the numbers come from

Every figure is pulled from FRED, the public database run by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, which collects official series from central banks and national statistics offices. We do not estimate, adjust, or fill in the underlying data — you see it as it was published, with a note on when it was last updated. When something looks surprising, we would rather point you to the source than invent a reason for it.

What we won't do

Our job stops at explanation. We will tell you what an indicator measures, how to read it, and what a recent move means in context — but we do not forecast where prices are heading, and nothing here is financial or investment advice. This is a place to understand the data, not to be told what to do about it.