Showing posts with label inflation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inflation. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

The Sky is Falling, the Sky is Falling

The usual Democrats with byliines are screeching up a storm about tariffs.  8/12/25 CNN to their credit is being pretty responsible:
"“We have seen moderate inflation over the last year … certainly, prices are not going up nearly as quickly as they were a few years ago,” Gus Faucher, senior vice president and chief economist at PNC Financial Services Group, told CNN in an interview. “But I do think that consumers are going to start seeing more price increases at the grocery store, at Amazon, things like that.”

“Consumers are going to start to feel a little more stretched over the next few months as we see more of the impact of tariffs passed through from businesses to consumers,” he added."

They then included a graph, which I cannot insert in the Android Blogger app, that shows CPI since 2019: very low until Biden took office and then suddenly every month is between 4 and 9% annualized.