Despite inflation, some everyday products actually dropped in price this year | CNN Business

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From a purely economic standpoint, 2024 wasn’t too shabby a year for inflation.

(Although the carton of eggs would like to disagree).

The prices of everyday goods and services were up 2.5% from January through November of this year, Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows. That’s down from 3.1% in 2023 and 6.4% in both 2022 and 2021 for that comparable period.

Although prices may not be rising as fast as they have in recent years, and wages are growing faster than inflation, that still doesn’t deliver warm and fuzzies

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