<story><title>US consumer prices soared 7% in past year, most since 1982</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/consumer-prices-inflation-c1bfd93ed1719cf0135420f4fd0270f9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hartator</author><text>&amp;gt; A significant portion of consumer inflation is still being driven by pandemic-driven mismatches between demand and supply.&lt;p&gt;Or maybe printing 40% more dollars is the main driver here? This feels like a very dishonest take.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tharne</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m amazed at the amount of rhetorical gymnastics going on in DC to lay the blame for inflation at the feet of anything besides the obvious - the massive amount of money printing going on the last few years. The most ridiculous of these is the &amp;quot;corporate greed storyline&amp;quot; I&amp;#x27;ve seen pushed lately. As if all the corporations suddenly decided to become greedy in the last twelve months after many years of altruistic and selfless behavior.</text></comment>
<story><title>US consumer prices soared 7% in past year, most since 1982</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/consumer-prices-inflation-c1bfd93ed1719cf0135420f4fd0270f9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hartator</author><text>&amp;gt; A significant portion of consumer inflation is still being driven by pandemic-driven mismatches between demand and supply.&lt;p&gt;Or maybe printing 40% more dollars is the main driver here? This feels like a very dishonest take.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>khuey</author><text>If you drill into the data you can see that large portions of the measured inflation are driven specifically by sectors like automobiles which have known pandemic-induced supply chain problems.</text></comment>