Inflation cooling despite hysteria over Trumps tariffs

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A key measure of U.S. inflation slowed last month as consumer prices rose just 2.1 percent in April compared to the same time last year, according to the Commerce Department. This marks a decline from March’s figure of 2.3 percent and represents the lowest rate since September. Core prices, which exclude volatile food and energy categories, increased 2.5 percent year-over-year, down slightly from 2.6 percent in March.

The data indicates a continued decline in inflation from its post-pandemic peak in July 2022, which reached the highest levels in four decades.
 

A key measure of U.S. inflation slowed last month as consumer prices rose just 2.1 percent in April compared to the same time last year, according to the Commerce Department. This marks a decline from March’s figure of 2.3 percent and represents the lowest rate since September. Core prices, which exclude volatile food and energy categories, increased 2.5 percent year-over-year, down slightly from 2.6 percent in March.

The data indicates a continued decline in inflation from its post-pandemic peak in July 2022, which reached the highest levels in four decades.
Inflation was 2.4 percent in November. The effects of Trump's tariffs haven't happened yet, and the courts deemed them unconstitutional. So yu can stop with the false narrative.
 
Inflation was 2.4 percent in November. The effects of Trump's tariffs haven't happened yet, and the courts deemed them unconstitutional. So yu can stop with the false narrative.

I get a kick out of the democrat cult. To say they are crazy is an understatement. It is bad for the U.S. to have tariffs but for other countries it is fine. Men can be women. There was nothing wrong with Biden. Hunters laptop was Russian disinformation. The only reason Hillary and Harris lost is because men told women who to vote for and they followed the directive they were given. On and on.

Do not get me wrong the republican cult is a bit out there but no were near as crazy.
 
I get a kick out of the democrat cult. To say they are crazy is an understatement. It is bad for the U.S. to have tariffs but for other countries it is fine. Men can be women. There was nothing wrong with Biden. Hunters laptop was Russian disinformation. The only reason Hillary and Harris lost is because men told women who to vote for and they followed the directive they were given. On and on.

Do not get me wrong the republican cult is a bit out there but no were near as crazy.
In addition, the courts did NOT say that tariffs are unconstitutional. They just continue to lie.
 
I get a kick out of the democrat cult. To say they are crazy is an understatement. It is bad for the U.S. to have tariffs but for other countries it is fine. Men can be women. There was nothing wrong with Biden. Hunters laptop was Russian disinformation. The only reason Hillary and Harris lost is because men told women who to vote for and they followed the directive they were given. On and on.

Do not get me wrong the republican cult is a bit out there but no were near as crazy.
ya they wanted the economy to collapse to its knees under trump; and to watch it actually improve and them go crazy is worth the price of admission
 

A key measure of U.S. inflation slowed last month as consumer prices rose just 2.1 percent in April compared to the same time last year, according to the Commerce Department. This marks a decline from March’s figure of 2.3 percent and represents the lowest rate since September. Core prices, which exclude volatile food and energy categories, increased 2.5 percent year-over-year, down slightly from 2.6 percent in March.

The data indicates a continued decline in inflation from its post-pandemic peak in July 2022, which reached the highest levels in four decades.
What??? What about the predictions of all those esteemed leftwing economists? You mean they were wrong again??
 
What??? What about the predictions of all those esteemed leftwing economists? You mean they were wrong again??
Too damn funny. Those economists clearly explained that there was a lack time between the implementation of the tariffs and the effect on prices. That is what you are seeing now. First of all, the tariffs are on again and off again and now TACO has entered the lexicon.

But those same economists, from the very beginning, said the markets would not show the effects of tariffs until the late summer. Back to school is the time frame when shelves will start to become bare and prices will begin to soar. I mean you see this all the time with the Trumptards. They will take this one month inflation number and trumpet it from the highest mountain top. Three months from now they will tell us Inflation doesn't matter. Last year, when inflation numbers were continuing to drop the Trumptards were saying, yeah, but it is still inflation. Same thing applies here, yes inflation is down, but it is still happening.

Like the damn deficit numbers. I have seen threads posted here, in April the government took in more money than it spent. The Trumptards are claiming that is because of the great work of the almighty Donald, and of course DOGE. So flippin funny, it is always like that in April, that is when the income tax money starts really rolling in. And like DOGE, going to cut government spending by two trillion dollars. Oh, everyone was talking about it. Now, looks like it is going to pan out at no more than 150 billion dollars, which probably won't cover the cost of DOGE when it all shakes out. And now, well no one is posting about DOGE and their savings.

I once heard that a goldfish has an attention span of fifteen seconds. A Trump supporter, less than five. After Labor Day, inflation will be ramping up and deficits will be expanding and the MAGA movement will find something else to hang their hat on.
 
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