"El Índice de Precios al Consumidor para Todos los Consumidores Urbanos (CPI-U) aumentó un 4,2 por ciento en los últimos 12 meses hasta un nivel de índice de 335,123 (1982-84=100)." "Even though rising prices were steadily trending downwards over the last few months, inflation has returned back to a 3-year high with CPI now coming in at a whopping 4.2% increase."

… also, big thank you to Policy Genius for sponsoring this video. But more on that later. All right. So, to bring you up to speed with exactly what's going on, we got to talk about the one subject that's nearly destroying the value of almost everything in 2026. And that would be, you guessed it, inflation. See, here's what most people don't realize. Even though rising prices were steadily trending downwards over the last few months, inflation has returned back to a 3-year high with CPI now coming in at a whopping 4.2% increase. Why? Well, when you really dig into the numbers, almost all of the inflation comes down to one source, and that's energy. Like, as you could see, this has nearly doubled in the last 6 months as a result of the conflict throughout the Middle East. And with inflation starting to tear through the value of almost everything, the big question then beco …

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