re: Price changes over last year (August CPI report)

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Fuel Oil: +52.0%
Gasoline: +27.4%
Gas Utilities: +4.4%
Electricity: +3.8%
Apparel: +3.6%
Overall CPI: +3.4%
Food away from home: +3.4%
Shelter: +3.0%
Medical Care: +2.5%
Transportation: +2.4%
Food at home: +2.2%
New Cars: +0.6%
Used Cars: -2.3%



But yea we can totally wait until after midterms to end the Iran war and then hand out $5K to everyone!


CPI report: Prices rose 3.4% in August, matching inflation expectations as the Fed weighs hiking


BTW, 30-year mortgage rates crossed over 7% yesterday and we have a new record of home sellers vs home buyers with a 58% gap. Inventory is no longer the excuse.

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the part of the program where we separate the objective thinkers from the blind loyalists.

Handing out $5k to everyone would pour gasoline on that 3.4% dumpster fire of inflation.
Cutting rates in such an environment would do the same (although slower and over a longer period).
Not beating the screaming frick out of the IRGC so that oil moves back down exacerbates everything.

Pointing those out isn't "disloyal," it's objective truth and where we should be demanding MAGA remain standing.

Trump needs to be leading the charge against the growing influence of Islam in American politics, touting the coming benefits of Venezuela being removed from a brutal, communist regime, pushing the growth of deportations (especially as a means to promote self-deportations), blasting Putin for continuing the Ukraine War (which would effectively kneecap Dems since their primary stumping is to be anti anything Trump is for), etc.

He has the keys to deliver a strong GOP win but if he doesn't use them soon, he's going to tank those chances as voters begin to look at their pocketbooks as being a more immediate concern than illegals and pedos.

Numbers always drop in September..that's when government determines COLA for social security recipients.

Think how much money just 1% saves

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Vote Democrat.

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We are currently getting Democrat type results from Trump right now. Its basically like Biden is back in office and all of this was 100% self inflicted.

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It can't get any worse, right?

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At least you are admitting what a clown show this Administration is.

What it means is I’m not going to debate the Iran conflict in a thread about inflation. But yes temporary gas price increases fully understandable and justified, and still lower than under Biden.

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and still lower than under Biden.

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Lower than 8 weeks out 208 weeks of Biden's term. So higher than the other 200 weeks of his term. Wow.

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Is that our standard now? Just be slightly better than a brain dead fool and his DEI cabinet of idiots?

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Whataboutism is the only thing the cult has left.

This admin has been an embarrassment. Only thing you can say to support it, is the last admin was a embarrassment.

Spoken like a true LOSER

The food price change isn't correct; it is much higher to us on Main Street.

Everyone's answer to inflation is to raise interest rates so the economy can be slowed down and less demand out in the market. So, you and I suffer.

How come the answer is never to cut government spending and handouts. Have their economy be slowed down. Slowing down the outflow of monopoly money from the US Government will have a far greater impact on inflation than messing with interest rates and trying to artificially slow the economy.

It's about making you and I suffer, not them. I wish everyone would wake up to this.

If you are out working and doing your part, you get fricked. They don't want success in the economy or for you to make and spend more money. Government carries on as do people that don't work and suck at the government teet.