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Posted on 03/13/2025 8:26:21 AM PDT by Red Badger
Promises made, promises kept.
“When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One,” Donald Trump said on the campaign trail last summer.
Critics claimed, without evidence, that Trump’s tariff plans would raise inflation. Many economists argued that while the rate of price increases might slow, prices would not decline and Americans would simply have to adjust to the new higher price level.
In February, however, the core producer price index for final demand declined by 0.1 percent. In other words, prices of goods and services— excluding food and energy—sold by U.S. businesses came down.
The broader index for producer prices was flat for the month, indicating that there was no inflation at all in the month.
Both numbers were better than expected. Economists had forecast a 0.3 percent increase in the broad producer price index (PPI) and an even larger 0.5 percent increase in core producer prices.Instead of the expected price surge, we got price stability—and even declines in core producer prices.
The producer price index (PPI) is often mistakenly called a measure of wholesale prices, a confusion that goes back to its original name as the wholesale price index. In fact, the index has never been a measure of wholesale prices and the name was changed in 1978.
The PPI for final demand measures the prices that businesses in the U.S. receive for goods, services, and construction sold for personal consumption, capital investment, government purchases, and exports. It excludes export prices, since those are paid to foreign producers, and sales taxes, which are paid to the government.
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Who cares about any of that? Thousands of federal employees are being let go!
The data is Jan-Feb and too soon to be attributed to anything but the economy itself; not enough time to reflect any Presidential actions, yet.
What we need is negative inflation.................
We’re all gonna die.
We’re all gonna die LAUGHING!...................
Inflation is caused by ONE THING: GOV’T PRINTING EXCESS DOLLARS.
When Gov’t spending is up, gov’t prints more dollars. More dollars in the money supply means less value per dollar AKA higher prices AKA inflation.
When Gov’t spending goes down, gov’t prints fewer dollars. Less dollars in the money supply means more value per dollar AKA lower prices AKA economic stability and prosperity.
LESS GOV’T = MORE PROSPERITY!!!
Govt spending and borrowing is not yet down in any way that could yet affect the inflation numbers.
What is happening is a of Biden’s inflation has already been cooked into the economy, and prices, and it is not, now, that inflation has “ended” only that the continuing rate of inflation has slowed. That’s all it is, and it was very much expected.
True, but jaw boning has a LOT of power, especially when by a man who is known for doing what he says he will do. Markets anticipate where things will be in the future. They responded to what President Trump was saying after he was re-elected and before he was inaugurated. Markets know he is a man of his word and not one to lie to get elected.
The only thing that will end inflation will be keeping spending increases within the GDP. The only way that will happen is by eliminating the 80%+, $3+ trillion unconstitutional portion of the feds.
“Markets anticipate where things will be in the future. They responded to what President Trump was saying after he was re-elected and before he was inaugurated. Markets know he is a man of his word and not one to lie to get elected.”
The only markets yet responding to initial Trump moves are the investment markets, not what prices that people pay are experiencing; and those markets - the investment markets, are down. That squeezes capital, not prices of goods bought and sold.
Actually, the only thing that will kill inflation is deflation - ready for a recession anyone? We had to do it during Reagan’s era and we can get through it again.
Economic health will only be sustained by keeping spending increases within the GDP and keeping the gov’t within its constitutional limitations.
And, yes, to get our economy healthy, there’s going to have to be some economic “cold turkey’ - AKA recession - to come off the gov’t spending addiction.
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It's not even literally printing. Most money in circulation no longer exists in printed form.
They create from nothing an entry in a ledger and distribute it electronically.
But Global Warming is freezing people to death‼️
If I read that correctly you want deflation? Dangerous thing if uncontrolled.
So is inflation....................
That paper cash you have in your wallet and that banks keep are all from gov’t printing presses.
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