{"id":486492,"date":"2026-02-20T00:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/486492\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T00:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:47:08","slug":"administered-price-inflation-continues-to-run-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/486492\/","title":{"rendered":"Administered price inflation continues to run wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government and regulatory decisions are driving up Australia\u2019s inflation and making the Reserve Bank of Australia\u2019s (RBA) job significantly more difficult.<\/p>\n<p>As illustrated below by Alex Joiner from IFM Investors, administered prices like essential utilities (e.g., electricity, water, and gas), council rates, public transport fares, etc., rose by 7.55% last calendar year, roughly double the rise in overall CPI inflation:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Administered-price-inflation.png\" width=\"660\" height=\"539\" alt=\"ADministered price inflation\"\/><\/p>\n<p>These administered prices are largely unaffected by changes in monetary policy, meaning that the RBA must squeeze private demand harder to bring overall CPI inflation down.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Government and regulatory decisions are driving up Australia\u2019s inflation and making the Reserve Bank of Australia\u2019s (RBA) job&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":["post-486492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}