Chart of the day: What’s driving US inflation?

By Global Macro Monitor On Mar 19, 2012

The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) in the U.S. increased 2.9 percent in February before seasonal adjustment. These BLS charts and table illustrate what is driving the increase.

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John Creighton on Facebook says 13 years ago

You should do another chart where you weight each of these based on their contribution to the CPI. Transportation, which would include gas prices is weighted as 10% of the CPI.
https://www.kceconomy.com/otherdata_CostOfLiving.asp

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