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by dragonwriter 1590 days ago
> I'm struggling to understand how inflation is only 7.5% when every major line item comprising inflation is up much more than 7.5% over the past year.

They aren't. Food, apparel, medical care commodities, and non-energy services are up less than the overall amount. The things that are up more just get mentioned more because big numbers are newsworthy, small numbers aren't.