This is awkward. They don't figure-in energy or food in the core inflation number. It's something that's good to know in addition to what he himself told TIME right there. I know how it goes- if he said it he didn't mean it and if he meant it you really really really really really didn't understand it. I expressly used "really" 5 times because I respect 5D chess or whatever he's pretending to play out there.