However, the core CPI is not the only indicator monitored. The Bank looks at a wide range of other price indicators, including the 10 percent trimmed mean, the Laspeyres chain index, the ratio of items whose prices are rising to core CPI items (the rising-CPI item ratio), and the breakdown items of the CPI.
Sarah Bloom Raskin: Community bank examination and supervision amid economic recovery Speech by Ms Sarah Bloom Raskin, Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the Maryland Bankers Association First Friday Economic Outlook Forum, Baltimore, Maryland, 6 January 2012. *  *  *  Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you this afternoon.