Food remains a major source of inflation pressure, even where headline inflation is easing

Inflation is often treated as a single number that tells us whether the cost-of-living problem is getting better or worse. But for consumers, the experience is rarely that simple. Prices don't move together, households don't spend the same way, and a falling headline does not necessarily mean that the …

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