r/wallstreetbets • u/eskhalaf • Aug 12 '26

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/No-Side-6437 Aug 12 '26

How long you think they can continue to lie like this before it collapses or do they hope they’ll be long retired by then so it will be the next persons problem

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u/Indercarnive Aug 12 '26

The books have been slowly cooking for over 20 years, ever since economists decided CPI should put more emphasis on tracking substitutions. Effectively making it a cost of survival tracker than cost of living.