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The problem for the Administration is that while the RATE of inflation has slowed down, levels were extremely elevated going into last year's election and voters' expectations, reasonable or not, were that prices would not merely go up slower but flatten or even decline.

Re-setting trade and supply issues with China are important objectives, but their benefits will be medium- to long-term. It is to President Trump's credit that they are at last being attacked.

While this weeks' election results were awful, a lot can change in a year. If there's no improvement, the mid-terms will be tough.

1 posted on 11/06/2025 8:07:51 PM PST by Miami Rebel
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The Post’s headline is over-dramatic, as is typical of everything they publish. Inflation persists in being problematic, but “raging” is, of course, an exaggeration.


2 posted on 11/06/2025 8:09:48 PM PST by Miami Rebel (A crap product,and vastly over-proced)
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The Federal Reserve has TDS.


3 posted on 11/06/2025 8:11:26 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.)
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To: Miami Rebel

Washington Post in 2022 when inflation was over 8%, more than TWICE today:

2022
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/07/26/inflation-causes/

It’s not Biden’s fault.

2024, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/11/14/inflation-american-rescue-plan-covid/

It’s under control and Biden did all he can to fix it.

It’s nice to have the libtard media basically practice apologetics (for them this is religious) for one.

Now inflation is at 3.0%, it’s a problem, and Trump is to blame.


5 posted on 11/06/2025 8:18:46 PM PST by Red6
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Trump is right to focus on energy. When oil goes down all prices go down. The Post is a tabloid run by aussie trash. They have some good columnists but that’s it.


6 posted on 11/06/2025 8:19:51 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4351068/posts

See above. Not sure which is correct.


7 posted on 11/06/2025 8:19:51 PM PST by alternatives?
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I was listening to reports from known Conservative sources Trump got a wakeup call and his economic plan was off the rails...If the SCOTUS rules against him on the tariffs and its looking more like they will, his duck is cooked.


8 posted on 11/06/2025 8:20:14 PM PST by dpetty121263
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Wait until the dumbasses at the New Yawk “media” start blaming all of Hans Gruber Dummani’s Screwups on Trump. All the Muzzie mammies won’t be able to buy food for their kids or their goats.


9 posted on 11/06/2025 8:20:49 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Another day of DemonRAT shutdown another great day for Chunky "Raw Cheeseburger" Schumer.)
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Frankly, inflation tamed to acceptable level.
There will always be an inflation, because of gov wants it that way.
Inflation is the least of my worries right now.
Rise of terror, communism, crime and illicit drugs are.
Government deficit is probably the most scariest thing right now. And thinking how Schumer fights to rise it by another trillion or two!


10 posted on 11/06/2025 8:25:49 PM PST by AZJeep (sane )
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Trump doesn’t set the prices for those things. Neither did Joe Pedo. The CEOs do that.


11 posted on 11/06/2025 8:26:09 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Another day of DemonRAT shutdown another great day for Chunky "Raw Cheeseburger" Schumer.)
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Price of eggs has come down - a lot


12 posted on 11/06/2025 8:28:01 PM PST by 11th_VA
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This kind of screed (probably intentionally) misses the point. If companies find their customers will pay the higher prices for their products that they've gotten used to in the post-Covid era, they're not going to be super-eager to lower them to pre-Covid levels. They price their products based on their performance in the market. The President -- any President -- has nothing to do with this, nor should he.
13 posted on 11/06/2025 8:28:23 PM PST by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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Biden inflation hit as high as 9 %. We are at 3% now.


15 posted on 11/06/2025 8:31:45 PM PST by mfish13 ( )
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This is booschidt. I don’t see any illegal aliens going home because they can’t afford the “American Dream Better Life” here. They are all happier than pigs in crap with the financial situation here. It’s only the self-unemployed Americans who are bitching because they have no money and have to riot for Soros and the Muzzies to have the dough to buy cat food.


16 posted on 11/06/2025 8:32:19 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Another day of DemonRAT shutdown another great day for Chunky "Raw Cheeseburger" Schumer.)
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My experience shopping is that prices are relatively stagnant. They were a bit higher after jan 21 2025 (was Joe Autopen legacy, and fear of what Trump was gonna’ do), but prices are stable to lower for me buying the same stuff. Dishonest reporting.


18 posted on 11/06/2025 8:35:18 PM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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I don’t know about elsewhere. But grocery prices are up in my neck of the woods. It’s very noticeable. If that’s due to Trump’s tariffs, I’m okay with that. In the long run, I think tariffs will be good for this country.

But here’s the thing. Trump wants the Fed to lower interest rates. That will do nothing to rein in the current inflation. Something gotta give here.

And whatever that is, it won’t help Republican chances in the 2026 midterms.


19 posted on 11/06/2025 8:37:00 PM PST by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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Interesting. During the Biden administration, prices were up 9% and not a peep from you guys. Now, prices are up on some goods by half as much and the world is coming to an end. Also, you cherry-picked Target, Walmart, and Amazon because they sell mostly items that are imported. The last numbers I saw was a CPI of 2.9%.

Also, the whole idea behind tariffs is to increase the price of imports, which will induce more domestic production and jobs. The bad news is that these supply effects to lower prices require increases in plant and equipment, and that takes time. In the short run, the only thing to do is avoid imported goods when you can.


21 posted on 11/06/2025 8:40:14 PM PST by econjack
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Meanwhile, further news in the "raging" inflation department...
2025 Thanksgiving dinner under Trump is 25% lower than 2024 Thanksgiving dinner under Biden, according to Walmart
Keep enjoying turkey, gravy, mashed spuds, and jello salad all year long.
23 posted on 11/06/2025 8:42:21 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom ( )
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>"Bananas are up 8.6%, mostly because of tariffs"<

So, now, instead of 60 cents/pound, bananas are 65 cents/pound? *yawn*

24 posted on 11/06/2025 8:49:39 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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"... while inflation rages across America..."

Typical of the Post's garbage propaganda...

25 posted on 11/06/2025 8:57:10 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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If democrats were in charge, all we’d be hearing is how they reduced inflation (because it wasn’t as bad as someone predicted).


30 posted on 11/06/2025 9:47:32 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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