Inflation expectations for next year surge to record high

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Inflation expectations for the next year climbed for a seventh straight month in May to a record high, according to a new survey from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Median one-year ahead inflation expectations last month rose 0.6 percentage points to 4%, the highest since the New York Fed’s Survey of Consumer Expectations began. Inflation expectations for the next three years climbed from 3.1% to 3.6%, trailing only the August 2013 print. 

Respondents over 60 years of age and those earning a high school degree or less were most concerned about future inflation. 

The internet-based survey consists of a rotating panel of approximately 1,300 household heads who participate for up to a year with a roughly equal number rotating in and out each month. 

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