Trump Promise = "I will bring down inflation"

[schmidlap]

We will learn in a year what annualized inflation will be in the future.

Why compare a month to a future uear?

Why not just respect the figures issued by Trump's Department of Labor?

The Labor Department's data indicates that energy costs in the United States surged by 10.9 percent in March 2026. This increase was the sharpest since November 2022, with the rise primarily driven by fuel oil prices, which increased by 44.2 percent compared to 6.2 percent in the previous month. Gasoline prices also saw a significant increase, rising by 18.9 percent compared to -5.6 percent in the prior month. These fluctuations reflect the impact of energy disruptions amid the Middle East crisis.​

Consumer Price Index Summary - 2026 M03 Results

www.bls.gov

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[Greenbeard]

We will learn in a year what annualized inflation will be in the future.

What we know so far is that the rate at which prices are growing at this moment has been pushed up dramatically in the last month.

Why compare a month to a future uear?

Because you said if the energy shock is having an impact we should expect to see inflation over 10%. Well, we have only one month of data during the energy shock so far and we know from that data that at this moment it's pushed inflation during that period to a rate of almost 11%. Hopefully that changes.

 

[Robert W]

Why not just respect the figures issued by Trump's Department of Labor?

The Labor Department's data indicates that energy costs in the United States surged by 10.9 percent in March 2026. This increase was the sharpest since November 2022, with the rise primarily driven by fuel oil prices, which increased by 44.2 percent compared to 6.2 percent in the previous month. Gasoline prices also saw a significant increase, rising by 18.9 percent compared to -5.6 percent in the prior month. These fluctuations reflect the impact of energy disruptions amid the Middle East crisis.​

Consumer Price Index Summary - 2026 M03 Results

www.bls.gov

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10.9 percent of 2.3 percent is nothing to worry about.