View from the Observation Deck

1. While the Consumer Price Index (CPI) reading stood at just 1.7% in June, there are sectors of the economy where Americans are used to taking a bigger hit to the wallet than what the CPI reflects.
2. Three of those sectors are energy (gas prices), health care (medical insurance) and agriculture (grocery bill).
3. The average citizen may be aware of this disparity, in our opinion, but most feel powerless to do anything about it.   
4. But there is a possible remedy for those investors willing to go tit for tat. Invest some capital in a portfolio of stocks representing the very companies benefitting from said price increases.  
5. The chart shows that the performance returns for all three sector indices surpassed the respective percentage price increases since the end of 2005.