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prices jumped higher, the Labor Department reported on Wednesday. The Consumer Price Index,

which measures a basket of goods, as well as energy and housing costs, rose 4.2% from a year

earlier. A Dow Jones survey had expected a 3.6% increase, this is actually even higher. The month-to-month

gain was 0.8% against the expected

0.2% excluding volatile food and energy prices. Core CPI increased 3% from the same period in 2020

and 0.9% on a monthly basis. So all you have to do to get to that slightly less alarming number

is exclude the two biggest costs that people generally take on, food and energy.

The respective estimates were now 2.3% and 0.3%.

The increase in the annual headline CPI rate was the fastest since September of 2008,

while the monthly gain in core inflation was the largest since 1981.

Okay, so this is the largest core inflation that we've had, month over month, in 40 years.

And we're supposed to be like, okay with this, apparently. Energy prices overall jumped 25% from

a year earlier, including a 49.6%'s increase for gasoline and 37.3% for fuel oil. That came,

even though most energy categories saw decline in April, prices at the pump, which fell 1.4% in April,

have resumed their climb in May with the national average eclipsing $3 a gallon. And remember,

this was all before the colonial pipeline shutdown. Okay, so that massive increase in energy costs

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