Financial and Monetary Systems

US consumer prices are at their highest since 1990. And inflation is at 6.2%

inflation: A trader counts U.S. dollar banknotes at a currency exchange booth in Peshawar, Pakistan

U.S. consumer prices surged at their highest rate since 1990. Image: REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz/File Photo

Sinéad Carew
Reporter, Reuters
Julien Ponthus
Reporter, Reuters
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