What's up with the idiotic "seasonal adjustment" stuff? I KNOW that my food & energy bills haven't gone down. There's a gap of well over 20% between the seasonally adjusted (20% increase versus -0.X increase) in the gas & food portions.
Kinda like how the economy lost more than 200,000 jobs last month but it was somehow "seasonally adjusted" to a gain of 1000 jobs. Unless someone can provide me with a good explanation for how seasonal adjustment figures are made, I'm calling the government a liar.
The "unadjusted" is this december against last december (it covers a whole year) that is up 20%. The "adjusted" numbers are for one month (dec. v. nov in the first column; then nov v. oct. in the second column). The adjustments are to try to compensate, for example, for fruit always costing a lot more in the winter than summer, or electricity costing more in the summer, usually.
Read this way, you simply see that there hasn't been much movement either way in the last 2 months. Also, remember, these are PRODUCER prices. The Consumer index is a separate set of statistics.