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Originally Posted by Rainger99
Inflation is still high - it was 8.5% in July and it was 8.3% in August.
I saw one article that said if you exclude food and gas, inflation was "only" 6.3%. However, I don't know why you would exclude two items that are necessary to survive. Maybe you could exclude entertainment or travel - which are more discretionary spending than food and gas.
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Just so people understand, that does NOT mean that prices increased another 8.3% in August. It means the rate of inflation for the total year so far (!) DECREASED from 8.5% to 8.3%. For the total for EIGHT MONTHS to drop 0.2%, prices in August had to drop approximately that amount times eight, or 1.6%. The Federal Reserve Bank had hoped that raising interest rates last month would cause even more of a decline, but it hasn’t yet. Meanwhile, gas prices are back to where they were from 2011-2015, just before a gas glut lowered prices so much that lots of oil wells were closed and fracking decreased a lot. That was an unusual situation, and while it was good for us, it was not good for oil companies.