Coffee, fuel and houses: why Donald Trump has an inflation problem
The US president’s war in Iran has worsened America’s affordability crisis
The US president’s war in Iran has worsened America’s affordability crisis

Costs at the pump exceed level at the end of the Biden administration

Conflict is reverberating across the US economy at cost of hundreds of billions of dollars in lost output

Petrol and diesel prices are rising more swiftly in America than other major economies including the UK and Canada

Administration has failed to douse surge in fuel costs as Middle East turmoil deepens

Americans are unhappy with the cost of living — inflation is higher than the month before the president retook office

The soaring cost of driving presents a political problem for Trump ahead of midterm elections in November