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January’s producer price index shows big drops in the cost of fruit and veggies. But wholesale vs. retail isn’t an apples-to-apples comparison.
During the pandemic, a wide variety of factors led to rising prices, including supply chain snarls.
In 2022, inflation reached its highest level since 1981.
The answer might disappoint you.
It’s a sneaky tactic to hide inflation: reduce a product’s size, but not its price.
It depends on the ingredients that go into a product and how much competition it faces.
There are fewer roadblocks for manufacturers recently, but economists say increased domestic production won’t necessarily lead to lower prices in the U.S.
Inflation is high but decelerating. So when will it decelerate to something normal?
The Fed’s preferred means of measuring inflation jumped 0.6% in October.
The CPI isn’t perfect, but experts say that no one index is.