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Inflation is rocking U.S. consumers at levels not experienced in more than 40 years.
From the cost of buying and renting homes and buying weekly groceries to filling up the gas tank, booking travel and more, rising prices have hit U.S. spenders for much of this year. In October, consumer prices were 7.7 percent higher than the year before.
NBC News is tracking inflation levels across a variety of consumer metrics. The chart below, which shows how prices each month compare to the same time a year earlier, will be updated monthly.
For more than a year, broad swaths of the economy have been dealing with supply chain disruptions that have affected the availability of wine and video game consoles to cars and eggs.
