The ongoing conflict with Iran is causing widespread shortages and price fluctuations across various commodity sectors. These issues are expected to affect people's day-to-day costs and availability of goods.

It's not just oil and gas that are affected by the Iran war. All sorts of shortages and price spikes are starting to pop up that stand to affect people's daily lives. <img alt="Mortgage rates have increased since the beginning of the war with Iran." src="https://feeds.npr.org/1004/undefined" /><p>It's not just oil and gas that are affected by the Iran war. All sorts of shortages and price spikes are starting to pop up that stand to affect people's daily lives.</p><p>(Image credit: Brent Jones)</...