The United States is experiencing a rise in the prices of products and services, as has not happened in the last 40 years.
Inflation rates in the United States have exceeded those of the last 40 years, in May the inflation rate reached 8.6%, the highest level since 1981. This is calculated through data from the consumer price index (CPI). The data is even more relevant considering that inflation levels in the United States had been maintained at an average of 2.3% per month for almost 30 years, exceeding 5% only four times, one of them at 5.6%. in 2008 during the financial crisis.
Inflation is usually measured through the CPI, which records the average change over time in the prices of a basic basket of goods and services for consumption. If the index registers an increase, it means an increase in prices.
This time the price increase was due to imbalances between supply and demand, problems in the supply chain, as well as other geopolitical factors that affected the price of energy, such as gasoline, natural gas or electricity.
Families in the United States have been affected by the price of products such as fuel oil, used for heating, as well as gasoline, which have increased by 70.1% and 48% respectively in the last 12 months.
On the other hand, food is one of the products with the highest increase in prices, especially those derived from animals, which rose by 13.7% compared to last year.
Until December 2023, inflation rates are expected to recover to the levels of April 2020 when the pandemic began. That is, at levels close to 2%.
