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US Inflation Rate Goes Negative

US Inflation Rate Goes Negative

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no1marauder
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That's right:

"US consumer prices fell in June for the first time since the early months of the pandemic. Fresh data Thursday revealed that consumer prices dropped 0.1% from May. On an annual basis, inflation eased to 3% last month from 3.3% in May."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/a-big-change-could-come-to-the-us-economy-in-september/ar-BB1pRT9t?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=5495ccf0fa21416c80f9cc1428452f0f&ei=32

Oh, and the economy added 206,000 more jobs despite negative inflation. Oh and average hourly earning have outstripped inflation for more than a year. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

Pretty rosy economic news, ain't it?

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@no1marauder said
That's right:

"US consumer prices fell in June for the first time since the early months of the pandemic. Fresh data Thursday revealed that consumer prices dropped 0.1% from May. On an annual basis, inflation eased to 3% last month from 3.3% in May."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/a-big-change-could-come-to-the-us-economy-in-september/ar-BB1pRT9t?ocid=msedg ...[text shortened]... than a year. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

Pretty rosy economic news, ain't it?
Can't wait to see how the maganuts spin this!

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@kmax87 said
Can't wait to see how the maganuts spin this!
They’ll find something else to gripe about.

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@kmax87 said
Can't wait to see how the maganuts spin this!
A reasonable guess is they'll say the same government agencies that they loved when they were reporting high inflation two years ago are now so infected with socialist yes men that they are cooking the books for Biden.

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OMG one good month after 42 months of pain, thanks a pant-load for the rosy results.

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@Cliff-Mashburn said
OMG one good month after 42 months of pain, thanks a pant-load for the rosy results.
Wouldn't want this trend to continue right?

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@kmax87 said
Wouldn't want this trend to continue right?
Let's see if it does before you start bragging about it.

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@no1marauder said
A reasonable guess is they'll say the same government agencies that they loved when they were reporting high inflation two years ago are now so infected with socialist yes men that they are cooking the books for Biden.
Yes, the alt right's playbook is so well developed they can overturn anything positive with alternate facts without breaking into a sweat. Bunch of moronic traitorous scum.

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@Cliff-Mashburn said
Let's see if it does before you start bragging about it.
It can meander anywhere it wants under 3% which it is eminently set up to do for a very long time, which would be awesome, unless Trump gets the opportunity to monkey wrench the economy towards his preferred setting of neo-serfdom and then your concern that its too early to celebrate might hold true.

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@Cliff-Mashburn said
OMG one good month after 42 months of pain, thanks a pant-load for the rosy results.
3% year inflation (that's the figure since last June) is lower than it was every year but one during the Reagan administration. https://www.investopedia.com/inflation-rate-by-year-7253832

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@kmax87 said
It can meander anywhere it wants under 3% which it is eminently set up to do for a very long time, which would be awesome, unless Trump gets the opportunity to monkey wrench the economy towards his preferred setting of neo-serfdom and then your concern that its too early to celebrate might hold true.
Trump want a 60% tariff on Chinese imports and a 10% tariff on ALL imports.

Imagine what that will do to the inflation rate.

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@no1marauder said
Trump want a 60% tariff on Chinese imports and a 10% tariff on ALL imports.

Imagine what that will do to the inflation rate.
Yup, but don't forget, the Chinese will pay the tariff...

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@kmax87 said
Yup, but don't forget, the Chinese will pay the tariff...
I'm not sure why the MAGANUTS fall for MEGAMAGA's stupidity. But that's what he will claim and they like sheep will blindly follow voting against their own best interest. You couldn't make this stuff up.

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Brag it up all you want, but four years ago my wife and I were comfortable, living on a fixed retirement income.
I now have to work and make at least 300 dollars a week to make ends meet.
Thanks to Joe and the democrat party.

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@Cliff-Mashburn
OF COURSE you would say it is all Biden's fault ignoring the FACT JACK that the dow is now over 40,000 and over 200,000 new jobs in June. If you want to bitch about having to earn 1200 a month to live, look at those 200,000 who in May did not even have a job at all.
I am in the same boat financially as you but not because of Biden but back in '98 or thereabouts, I had a 401K worth a quarter mil, but a crash brought that down to 3K in a couple of months and I had no choice where I could put my 401k into some stock or other and all of the portfolio dumped, in order for me to be able to put my 401K money into other stocks besides the one chosen by other people I had to be 59 1/2 and I was 58 ATT so I was totally screwed and that is why I have to keep working, 3K a month does not pay the bills.
My big mistake was thinking if I just let it slide it will come back up again. If I had any financial smarts I would have dumped the money out, taken the cash and payed the 20% tax but I didn't so now here I am.

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