Inflation was lower this month than expected, only growing 0.3% for the month according to the Fed.Inflation is now lower than at any point during Biden's presidency. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/24/tame-inflation-report-keeps-fed-rate-cut-on-track-00621391Tame inflation report keeps Fed rate cut on trackThe CPI release offers a small reprieve for the Fed, which has been deprived of key economic data while much of the government is not operating. The annual inflation rate ticked up to 3 percent in September but didn’t increase by as much as expected, leaving the Federal Reserve on track to cut interest rates again next week.Prices rose 0.3 percent from August, according to the Labor Department’s latest consumer price index report, which drew more attention than usual because it was delayed by the government shutdown.The report is also crucial because increases in Social Security benefits are tied to the inflation rate. After the CPI release, the Social Security Administration announced that benefits would rise 2.8 percent in 2026 in the annual cost-of-living adjustment.Fed policymakers will decide next Wednesday whether to reduce interest rates again. Chair Jerome Powell has been under constant pressure from President Donald Trump to lower borrowing costs to spur the economy.“There was little in today’s benign CPI report to ‘spook’ the Fed and we continue to expect further easing at next week’s Fed meeting,” Lindsay Rosner, head of multi-sector fixed income investing at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, said in an emailed statement.“A December rate cut also remains likely with the current data drought providing the Fed with little reason to deviate from the path set out” in policymakers’ September projections, she added.The CPI report offers a small reprieve for the Fed, which has been deprived of key economic data while much of the government is not operating.
Staff at the Bureau of Labor Statistics was brought back to produce this report as the Trump administration aims to meet the statutory deadline for making inflation-related adjustments to Social Security benefits.But the agency isn’t yet collecting data for the next CPI, which means the October report will also be delayed, and it’s unclear for how long. Meanwhile, the monthly jobs report is also indefinitely on hold.The Fed still has recent data and some private-sector supplements to help guide it for now, but Powell said last week that it would become more challenging for central bank policymakers the longer the data blackout lasts.“I would say after Thanksgiving you probably want to have that,” JPMorgan chief U.S. economist Michael Feroli said in an interview. “Fed officials kind of have a sense of the message that they want to give to the market about December. And so if you go past November, I think then they’re going to have some issues in terms of how they’re talking about policy to the market.”
3 percent is the highest rate since Trump came back into officehttps://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-price-index-by-category-line-chart.htm
>>1451850>Inflation is now lower than at any point during Biden's presidency.Wait excuse me, I'm wrong. Inflation has not been this low since one month after Biden was elected
>>1451852That's an easier to navigate graph.I was using https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=rocUI guess after Trump took over it's fluctuated right around 3%, You are correct
>https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-says-no-inflation-data-release-likely-next-month-2025-10-24/hmm, i wonder why data on this lagging indicator will not be released from this point forward
>>1451854Yeah, I've been drinking so I can't do FRED right nowIt's objectively a more informative graph if you know what you're looking at, but if you don't it just makes your eyes glaze over
If inflation is lower why am I eating my neighbor's baby rn?
>>1451868My issue was mobile device display. It renders very poorly
>>1451894Hey man, we've all dipped into the bath salts on a Friday night
>>1451850Who fucking cares. Trump is fucking everything up. The value of the USD is down over 10% since Trump 2.0. Gold and crypto [hedge] has sky rocketed since Trump 2.0. 2T national debt added since Trump 2.0. Fuck the inflation figure.
>>1451850Notice its been half a year since democrat bots on here bitched about egg prices, because they are now lower than under biden.
>>1451850>Guys it only increased a little less than we thought it would! This is great news!
T.A.C.O. tRump is responsible for this unexpectedly lower inflation rate. T.A.C.O. vs wacko tRump... Who will will prevail in the end?
>>1451921Yeah because the bird flu pandemic finally ended, only for Trump to promptly increase the price of literally everything else.Fun fact: every single Christmas catalog I've seen this year has left prices off of them. Trump's tariffs have left the market and prices so volatile they can't even be certain things won't be more expensive in 2 months.
>>1451922>Guys it was over 10% under Biden and I didn't complain.>It's a way more normal 3% now>Fuck dRumpf IT'S OUT OF CONTROL!!!This is why you will never ever change a single mind with your bullshit.
>>1451925That's crazy lmao. You americans are cooked, good luck!
>>1451947>Trump number smaller than Biden number, that mean stuff less expensive!You're one of those useful idiots who doesn't understand inflation is cumulative year over year, aren't you?Also I assume your mom still buys everything for you
>>1451947They'd do be like this though
>>1452010Im sorry, but isnt a 3% increase lower than a 10% increase?Seriously, i have no political stake in this, and im fairly certain inflation is a good thing, in small amounts…
>>1451947Wow, good thing we have tariffs to deal with no so that it literally doesnt make a difference.
>>1452017The 10% increase never went away. This is another 3% on top of it.
>>1452019Yes, that's why 10 months of 11%+ inflation under Biden kicked the absolute shit out of everyone.Normal inflation is like 1.5%-3%. Biden gave us several decades of inflation compressed into just a few years.
>>1452150Inflation started spiking in April of 2021, nine weeks after Joe Biden was sworn in as presidentPoint out the specific legislation or executive order Joe Biden signed into law that single handedly caused that spike in inflationOtherwise, one would be inclined to think it was caused by the nationwide lockdowns, supply line breakdowns, and mass printing of trillions of dollars under the Trump administration the year before catching up, as inflation is a lagging indicator
>>1452155critical thinking is one of those things the resident shill conveniently ignores no matter what, it's almost like you didn't post this post to him
>>1452158Nah, it's fun fucking with himHe'll run off from one thread where he's eating shit to try to derail another oneEventually he gets so upset he goes AFK for a while and the board can have some peace for a few hours
>>1452150Neat point. To add to your info the recent inflation spike was a worldwide phenomenan started by trading & shipping restrictions because of the pandemic. This did not only happen in USA. The inflation spike started during Trump's presidency before Biden was voted in.
>>1452155But only Democrats locked down. So, uh, bruh? Da fuq?>>1452158Quiet shitfag.
>>1452160>mid-2021 to 2023hmm, who was president?
>>1452164during the pandemic? trump. but you know that
>>1452163And the trillions of dollars printed out of thin air?
>>1452164Need more context than just a range of years to understand what you are trying to say.
>>1452165MID 2021-2023 what when inflation spiked.Who was president you dirty little turd?
>>1452173If only Democrats had shut down the government to prevent it.
>>1452177>MID 2021-2023 what when inflation spiked.I'll request againPoint out the specific legislation or executive order Joe Biden signed into law that single handedly caused that spike in inflation in April of 2021, nine weeks after he was sworn in
>>1452177see >>1452173and then get a real job and never pretend to be white or american ever again
>>1452179>It's okay that Trump printed trillions of dollars out of thin air because Democrats didn't stop him
>>1452180No, I'll let AP do it.https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-biden-covid-health-business-772e1eb45fb5981f3a2b6f2a4b0d201f
>>1452188god you're esl. you can't even quote your article can you
>>1452193You need to read more, you mongoloid.
>>1452197you need to get your GED equivalent so you can get a real job
>>1452201Literal retarded troll posting.
as seen above, esl shill finally titles his work
>>1452188The 1.9 trillion stimulus package was the only thing listed that fits in the timeline before inflation spiked in April 2021Didn't Trump sign a 2.2 trillion dollar stimulus package the year before?
>>1452208Yes and that's part of the problem with the Bidet stimulus package which is constantly cited as a huge reason for the economic distress during his presidency.The dRumpf stimulus wasn't that great (don't get me wrong, I cashed the check) but the Biden one was way too much.That along with increasing energy prices with regulations of fear of regulations was a formula for Bidenflation.
>>1451851> But the agency isn’t yet collecting data for the next CPI, which means the October report will also be delayed, and it’s unclear for how long. Meanwhile, the monthly jobs report is also indefinitely on hold.So we don’t actually know how bad it is
>>1451925he's buying beef and soybeans from argentina and ur bitching about muh american farmers.what do you want him to do lower prices or help domestic production?
>>1452265How much is he spending?Also,>You can literally only do one thing at a time!!!Lower pricing NOW and in the future by importing while rebuilding the US herds. That's literally why shit is imported, except in the case of Chinese giffin goods.
>>1452267>while rebuilding the US herdsWhich can't happen if all the ranchers go out of business.
>>1452268Well, sucks to say, but more will take their place. I highly doubt outside of disease wiping out a rancher's herd, there's likely little possibility of them going out of business due to the high demand for beef.Also, you're breathing manually again, fucker.
>>1452268They wont. Our current herds are the smallest they have been in 75 years. We're buying beef because local farmers literally cannot meet market demands. >b... but ranchers dont want you to import Of course they don't.
>>1452267you either lower prices now, or you tank it and subsidize us farmers you can't do both.>>You can literally only do one thing at a time!!!I get i'm talking to an uneducated moron, but do you understand a single thing about economics?you can't control the supply, demand and cost at the same time you fucking nitwit.>Lower pricing NOW and in the future by importing while rebuilding the US herdslower pricing now by importing from argentina checkthat comes at the expense of US farmers, if you want to prop those up then that'll be in the form of subsidies which negates the whole point of importing beef from abroad.
>>1452326You are exactly right. Unfortunately very few on here understand economics, they just like flapping their gums to make noise.
>>1452326>do you understand a single thing about economics?>you can't control the supply, demand and cost at the same time you fucking nitwit.What?
