prices are fucked 

hard to wrap my head around how expensive things have gotten so quickly..

The consumer price index, a broad measure of costs in goods and services across the U.S. economy, accelerated 0.5% for the month, putting the annual inflation rate at 3%. They were higher than the respective Dow Jones estimates for 0.3% and 2.9%.

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US inflation unexpectedly increased to 3% in January

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https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/12/cpi-january-2025.html

>The consumer price index, a broad measure of costs in goods and services across the U.S. economy, accelerated 0.5% for the month, putting the annual inflation rate at 3%. They were higher than the respective Dow Jones estimates for 0.3% and 2.9%.

