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by jefftk 1016 days ago
It's typical that prices change by different amounts in different areas. For example, if you go to https://www.bls.gov/cpi/ you'll see that the overall +3.2% for June is broken up into +4.9% for food, -12.5% for energy, and +4.7% for everything else. The more finely you slice, the more often you'll see something moving very differently from the rest of the economy.