The latest inflation data for consumer prices in February effectively kneecapped all of the media fear porn over the Trump tariffs. So what does the media do? It’s very simple: We won’t admit we were wrong, but Trump’s war in Iran is sure to make prices go up now!
The Bureau of Labor Statistics’s consumer price index for February showed a muted 2.5 percent bump in core inflation, which excludes volatile items such as food and energy, marking the lowest rate of increase since 2021. The all-items index increase was also innocuous at 2.4 percent, in line with expectations but still reinforcing the argument that the Trump tariffs were NOT inflationary for all the lefty media kvetching to the contrary.
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