Here’s the inflation breakdown for January 2024 — in one chart

Inflation in the United States showed encouraging signs in January as it declined to a rate of increase of only three percent annually compared to the previous year at this time when it reached three point four percent and following a period of unfortunately high inflation trends since mid two thousand and twenty two and through to the middle of two thousand and twenty three when inflation reached a peak of nine point one percent in June of two thousand and twenty two the annual rate of inflation had peak several months earlier in mid two thousand and twenty two and then remained at these high levels for many months subsequently before finally beginning to subside during the latter half of the year after many months of difficulties for consumers coping with the high costs of adjustments for living expenses and as workers buying power has also taken a hit with incomes unable to maintain parity with costs however there are still reasons for continued concern for the economics and potentially for future inflation remaining at high levels particularly with estimations that wages will reflect this and as overall expenses stay elevated due to increases in costs for living expenses such as housing electricity and groceries while energy costs have declined natural gas continues to see alterations in price due to a variety of factors and also a lingering war in the Ukraine continues exerting pressure on the economics of the global economies as well as emerging from a global pandemic only less than four years ago ongoing strings have still not seen a full recovery and although there are reasons to remain optimistic the full impacts of trends in the market will likely become more evident as the year progresses