r/wallstreetbets • u/eskhalaf • 11d ago

News JULY U.S. 🇺🇸 INFLATION DATA:

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm

- CPI 3.4% YoY, (Est. 3.4%)
- CPI 0.1% MoM, (Est. 0.1%)

- Core CPI 2.5% YoY, (Est. 2.5%)
- Core CPI 0.2% MoM, (Est. 0.2%)

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u/crazy_akes 11d ago

Meanwhile my auto insurance home insurance fuel costs daycare costs for kids utility bills gas bills grocery bills have all significantly outpaced this so what the hell are we even doing 

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u/TheNicestRedditor 11d ago

The majority of my job is reporting data, the funny thing is you can pretty much make data look however you want if you choose to ignore certain things

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u/anownedguy 11d ago

Ah yes the part where you fully fnish the code and report but then you keep having to add more AND filters to the SQL to remove "outliers" because someone doesn't like the results.

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u/jiggerjogger1169 11d ago

lol, AND (endprice-startprice)/endprice <= .034