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Consumer prices spiked in April, growing at fastest pace in more than 12 years
NBC News ^ | May 12, 2021 | Ben Popken

Posted on 05/12/2021 6:38:24 AM PDT by John W

Consumer prices for the month of April rose the most since September 2008, an indication of soaring demand dovetailing with continued supply chain interruptions, according to the latest monthly data released Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Consumer Price Index, a measurement of price changes for items ranging from food to clothing to pet products, jumped by 0.8 percent in April, beating expectations of 0.2 percent, or 2.3 percent year over year.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: consumer; consumerprices; cpi; economy; inflation; prices
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1 posted on 05/12/2021 6:38:24 AM PDT by John W
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The decline is faster than expected.

Biden voters still aren’t hurting enough to care.


2 posted on 05/12/2021 6:39:42 AM PDT by brownsfan (Term limits! Without term limits, we are doomed.)
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https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/consumer-prices-spiked-april-n1267058?cid=ed_npd_bn_fb_bn&fbclid=IwAR2Gjy5-SEdieXagSjRGQnY7Or16Ps7rcLR3QG1hIpvAV-PEG2paTlIm5qM


3 posted on 05/12/2021 6:39:44 AM PDT by John W
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It’s all good atleast mean Tweets is gone.


4 posted on 05/12/2021 6:40:21 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: John W

Gee, who would have thought that pushing out huge amounts of currency upon a partly closed industrial and service base would have blasted prices much higher? I think I read that somewhere in basic Econ 101.


5 posted on 05/12/2021 6:41:20 AM PDT by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media.)
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To: John W

As people eventually see their gains in their retirement plans fade, gas prices skyrocket, personal freedoms denied, they can rest easy that the Orange man was banned from tweeting.


6 posted on 05/12/2021 6:41:44 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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They’ve been spiking since before April. Gas was on a tear before the pipeline activity. My gas was $2.49 two months ago. Now some locations over a dollar increase. Things are going as planned apparently. :-{


7 posted on 05/12/2021 6:43:27 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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...or 2.3 percent year over year.

More like 2.3 % month over month.

Housing up 20% over 2020. Insane. Even pre-financial crisis in 2008, housing prices never increased 20 % in a single year.

Lumber prices up 300% in less than a year.


8 posted on 05/12/2021 6:44:42 AM PDT by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: brownsfan

Will their be more stimulus checks to help the voters pay the higher prices?


9 posted on 05/12/2021 6:45:36 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (PS Whenever you are stuffing Fulton County ballot boxes, election fraud goes better with Coca Cola!)
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To: brownsfan

Most Biden voters are one issue voters that concerns them only. They don’t give a damn about anything else let alone the country.

The remaining voters (idiots) voted for him because he wasn’t Trump with nothing else in mind.


10 posted on 05/12/2021 6:46:32 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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A year from now these will seem like the good old days.


11 posted on 05/12/2021 6:46:44 AM PDT by Huskrrrr (Pronouns? I need no stinkin pronouns!)
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“Will their be more stimulus checks to help the voters pay the higher prices?”

Yep, then the prices go higher, and the dollar goes down, and wouldn’t you know it, those unfunded liabilities of the government and corporations suddenly will be relatively cheaper.

Meanwhile, the masses will praise the government for keeping them afloat and will vote Dem. Until it all breaks down. And it will break down.


12 posted on 05/12/2021 6:50:02 AM PDT by brownsfan (Term limits! Without term limits, we are doomed.)
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They left off a zero.


13 posted on 05/12/2021 6:53:36 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged )
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“Meanwhile, the masses will praise the government for keeping them afloat and will vote Dem. Until it all breaks down.”
News Flash! Dem voters will never stop voting D, Even if their world comes crashing down and, as their usefulness comes to an end, the commissars come to escort them out back to individually to receive their quietus shots, they will not change. The only way to get rid of them is attrition.


14 posted on 05/12/2021 6:58:23 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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Meanwhile, the masses will praise the government for keeping them afloat and will vote Dem. Until it all breaks down. And it will break down.

...and the media will still blame Trump for the ensuing chaos.
15 posted on 05/12/2021 7:00:58 AM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: ArtDodger

“The only way to get rid of them is attrition.”

Then all is lost. The left controls the educational system. Every year there are more leftist voting, while conservatives die off. This is one of the few aspects of being old that’s not so bad.


16 posted on 05/12/2021 7:05:22 AM PDT by brownsfan (Term limits! Without term limits, we are doomed.)
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Carter finally got his second term.


17 posted on 05/12/2021 7:10:36 AM PDT by Nathan _in_Arkansas (Shut the deuce up!!! I'll do the fighting!!!)
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Perfect time to add more taxes, aint it Creepy-Pinko-Joe?


18 posted on 05/12/2021 7:12:48 AM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: brownsfan

Maybe so. Maybe slavery and absolute rule is the natural order of things... If so, the USA has had a good run.


19 posted on 05/12/2021 7:20:24 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: John W

The MSM obviously does not want to use the word “INFLATION”. Look how they side skipped around that word.


20 posted on 05/12/2021 8:13:20 AM PDT by Revel
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