The Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) has released the November Consumer Price Index (CPI) [DATA HERE] showing the rate of inflation has dropped to 2.7% overall, with core inflation at 2.6%. This is a significant drop from expectations by financial pundits and pontificating economic media.
While the media proclaim, “inflation cooled unexpectedly,” the reality is that it’s not unexpected. The results of a slowing of price increase are not accidental; they are the result of Trump’s domestic economic policies working.
[Non-Paywall Source and Media Spin]
President Trump has been cutting waste, fraud and abuse in runaway government spending; slashing costly regulations across all sectors of the economy and ending Green New Scam energy policy in favor of drill, baby, drill. As noted by NEC Chairman Kevin Hasset, Trump has reduced deficit spending overall.
There’s still a long way to go, but significant MAGAnomic progress is being made. Oh, and that skyrocketing “tariff inflation” the same shocked pundits proclaimed was sure to happen this time, well, that has not surfaced either. Just like it didn’t surface in 2018 or 2019 when the tariffs were applied the first time.
NEW YORK – US inflation unexpectedly cooled in November – slowing its pace in the first report since September after a government shutdown disrupted data gathering.
The Consumer Price Index rose 2.7% in November over the past 12 months, down from 3% in September and below expectations of a 3.1% rise, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Thursday.
Core CPI – which excludes volatile food and energy prices – rose 2.6% over the same period, far below estimates of a 3% jump.
[…] “This report is clear: prices are steady and wages are beating inflation,” the White House Council of Economic Advisers said in a social media post, nodding to lower inflation rates on airfares and hotels. (read more)
I think President Trump’s speech last night as well the congressional republicans’ press conferences, etc. should do more education. I just saw a post on by local bulletin board site spouting off that her grocerty bill is “$200 higher than last year.” (She didn’t say what types of groceries she buys nor where.) She and her supporting cast were harping on PDJT announcing lies. So the dummies still don’t get it. While they are ignorant and the kind who wouldn’t praise President Trump if he saved them from a burning building, I think more educational information MUST be proclaimed by every republican and conservative as well as President Trump. By giving good basic information to everyone with simple clear examples, it may get through to some people and it may help those others spread information, not propaganda, to their family, friends and associates.
Full disclosure: I rarely reply to any posts on this bulletin board because the owners are 200% (yes “200” not 100) per cent liberal.
Long term hostage here… SoCal gas is “down” to $4.29 today. Lowest I’ve seen in months.
3.59 here in chico
So what will inflation do if we kick out all the Somalis.
A major sector of the economy took a big hit on their revenues, and fear that more will be coming (thus they cut spending). I am referring to the NGO / D.bag politician / bureaucrat / scammers / drug dealers / paid thugs and trolls. The vast size of this sector is revealed in the lack of inflation, also the effect on luxury goods and restaraunts.
Overpaid lowlife D.umbax types are not good with their money – thus their fervent greed and psychopathic derangement at any denial: they feel entitled. Somebody who is living high from some grift is going to get a lot angrier when they lose their govt feedbag, than one doing honest, productive work that people will actually spend their own money on. The productive one feels that he can just WORK elsewhere. the grifters know that luxurious govt empowered pork may be hard to replace, especially with grownups in charge and watchdogs alerted.
We’d be having a lot more riots, but the risks / rewards ratio has changed. The lack is another tell of how much violence was formerly financed by tax money.
Interesting…especially when one considers that energy prices directly affect everything else due to it’s driver of transportation, processing, and manufacturing costs.
CNN Forced to Admit Inflation is Coming Down Under Trump: ‘No Other Way to Spin it’ (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/cnn-forced-admit-inflation-is-coming-down-under
So how does all this good news affect Pittsburgh, pa? Cause it doesn’t seem very good economically around here? $3.49 for gas, bananas went from 59 cents a pound to 69 cents a point, fruit and veggies same, absolute ridiculous price increases? But you can buy rotten avacados for 77 cents a piece now. In their season, they want $1.29 for ONE avocado.
so perhaps governor can get a call?
Maybe because you live in a democratic held city? And PA adds 2o cents, at least, to their gas tax for their turnpike. Which fees have never seemed to pay for what they always do. I mean, have you ever driven the PA turnpike where they are not doing repairs?
The toll increases over the past 15 years are being used to fund PA’s mass transit systems. Those increases were generated by a GOP – controlled legislature. (Resident of the Lehigh Valley here). That is why the PA Turnpike’s toll rates are the highest in the nation.
Inflation being reduced and coming down considerably does not equate to elimination of price increases that occurred during the reign of the AutoPen…
In regards to gas – look at your local and state gas taxes and at the station you buy from. It’s under $3 in multiple places in Pittsburg:
https://www.gasbuddy.com/gasprices/pennsylvania/pittsburgh
Fed gasoline tax: 18.4 cents/gal
PA gasoline tax: 57.6 cents/gal
Plus:
https://triblive.com/local/regional/gas-prices-jump-but-dont-expect-them-to-stay-there-expert-says/
Seeing that snippet of WaPo reminded me of a very old story, possibly apocryphal. It’s reputed that in a huff one day LBJ complained that if he walked across the waters of the Potomac that the headline on WaPo the next day would be “LBJ Can’t Swim.”
No matter What our President does, it will be reported as:
Evil
Incompetent
Harmful
Stupid
Etc
If DJT created peace around the world (that elusive ‘Whirled Peas’ we hear about come pageant time)…
allowing for a decrease in military spending – the WaPo would breathlessly report:
‘Trump disrupts major manufacturers and technology companies worldwide – experts fear mass layoffs, chaos in economies across the globe.”
CUT THE CORD
Gee, if I was as consistently wrong as these “expert” economists, would I still have a job? I guess we need a new law for economists where they have to present their prediction scorecard whenever they publish a prediction, so that the public can weigh their past performance and make a judgement about how close to correct their current one may be. We may just have to use the Costanza Principle and do the opposite of what the “experts” are saying.
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I remember at the beginning of the year SD mentioned that we would see the full effect of easing inflation around Thanksgiving and it would be significant. Something about the fact that the full agricultural cycle would be complete and better prices would be realized at the supermarkets. SD was much more eloquent so I hope I described it well enough.
Anyway, did that happen? Eggs are way down of course. However, lettuce is $3.50 a head and beef is still too expensive for us to get anything other than ground beef and a roast if on sale.
I do grant that inflation is better now so would we say we are at sitting where SD predicted, and if not, why?
You seem to conflate “easing” with “reversing”. The true times prices reduce is during a deflationary recession. We do not want that. The rate of rise is what you want to watch. That has in fact eased. Now the second half where we all feel and do better is the increase in net earnings. This takes a minute as the benefit from investments lag. Check back in next summer. Hang in there.
It won’t take until the summer, fiscal policy changes were made 6 months ago and workers that didn’t understand they could have changed their W4 to take advantage tax benefits in 2025 are going to get great tax returns in Q1 and Q2 of 26, so I think GDP will be moving nicely by April and really boom in the summer. Additionally, no matter how minimal the Fed rate cut was in September the 6 month monetary policy impact will start contributing in March! The GOP shouldn’t surrender the house yet, they may be riding an economic wave into the midterms.
You mean to tell me that Bidenomics doesn’t work (just like lots of other things from the autopen regime)?