In the first half of the year, a surge in the prices of gasoline and food – along with some pass-through of these higher prices to other goods and services – had pushed consumer inflation higher. Around the same time, supply disruptions associated with the disaster in Japan put upward pressure on motor vehicle prices.
The person taking care of our kids eventually got married, then, because of the pandemic, their family had [financial] problems. We were able to transfer money to her because of e-payments [electronic payments]. All those aggregate statistics do not matter to me relative to that particular person that I care about, who helped us bring up our children.