Inflation is up, used car sales are down, and millennials are buying homes blind, you're

listening to Motley Fool money.

I'm Asad Sharma, sitting in for Chris Hill who's on vacation, and I'm joined today by

Motley Fool analyst Yasur El Shami.

Yasur, how are you doing?

I'm doing very well.

Thank you, Asad.

Consumer price index numbers came in this morning, Yasur, and they were hot.

Yes, they were.

We saw the, you know, inflation is a hot word right now.

Everybody's talking about inflation.

You can feel it at the gas pump.

You can feel it at the grocery store.

You can pretty much feel it everywhere in all aspects of our lives.

And you can blame supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, energy prices and so on and

so forth.

But really, you know, we have seen very high numbers, not since January 1982, have we

seen consumer price index that's high 8.5% from a year earlier.

And that is following a 7.9% annual gain in February, so a 1.2% month over month increased.

So it's not just that the year-over-year comparisons are bad, but prices are just literally increasing

on a monthly basis.

And of that increase, about 18% gain came from gasoline prices.

...