Inflation falls for eighth consecutive month

it is so easy to prove that you are an idiot....
the inflation leading up to Carter's presidency......from your link.....

the Carter inflation.....from your link....

If it is easy to prove that I am an idiot, your failure to do so really reflects badly on you.
 
Inflation fell for the eighth-straight month in February

(CNN) Inflation's temperature came down a little bit more last month, but the Federal Reserve's campaign to bring down high prices has grown even more complex in recent days.

The Consumer Price Index, a closely watched gauge of inflation, showed that annual price increases continued to slow in February, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Tuesday.

CPI measured 6% for the year ended in February, down from January's 6.4% and in line with economists' expectations.

It's the eighth consecutive month that the annual rate has declined and marks the lowest level since September 2021.

"Inflation has peaked, but it hasn't gone into hibernation," said Mark Hamrick, senior economic analyst for Bankrate.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/03/14/economy/cpi-inflation-february/index.html

I thought you were smarter than this. Inflation isn't a real thing.
 
It has nothing to do with Biden or his policies. .

it has EVERYTHING to do with fuel and trasportation costs........and the rise in those costs has everything to do with Biden's idiotic plan to bankrupt the oil industry.......how stupid can you people be.......he said he was going to do it, you elected him to do it, you accused him of not doing it fast enough, he pointed out to you what he did to fill his promises to you......

this is the result........

“No more drilling. There is no more drilling,” Biden snapped at a young woman in the crowd. “I haven’t formed any new drilling.”

“There are at least five more years of offshore drilling,” the woman shouted back. “— in the Atlantic or the Pacific but in the Antarctic and off the gulf of New Mexico.”

“That was before I was president,” Biden responded. “We’re trying to work on that and get that done.”

https://victorygirlsblog.com/biden-says-no-more-drilling-to-heckler-in-ny/
 
If it is easy to prove that I am an idiot, your failure to do so really reflects badly on you.

if Nixon is to blame for Carter's inflation, why did the inflation that existed under Nixon go down before Carter was elected and then start to go up again after his election?.......
 
it has EVERYTHING to do with fuel and trasportation costs........and the rise in those costs has everything to do with Biden's idiotic plan to bankrupt the oil industry.......how stupid can you people be.......he said he was going to do it, you elected him to do it, you accused him of not doing it fast enough, he pointed out to you what he did to fill his promises to you......

this is the result........

Fucking idiot Trump jizz guzzler bullshit ^^^^

Trump's boyfriend Vlad The (Orange Asshole) Impaler had more to do with increased fuel costs and the ripple effect that it caused worldwide, than some political remarks, you fucking simple-minded Bible thumper jackass.

Throw in a worldwide pandemic that interrupted supply lines which caused shortages and together they are so obviously the culprit, that only a lowlife, lying, right-wing Trump dick sucking fake Xtian retard like you would try to claim Biden and his policies were to blame.

But I understand how you and your little group of gay republican propaganda faggots aka the "Victory Girls" get aroused by spouting off lies about Biden, after which you stroke and spout all over each other.

So go ahead and knock yourselves out, "girls".
 
if Nixon is to blame for Carter's inflation, why did the inflation that existed under Nixon go down before Carter was elected and then start to go up again after his election?.......

The economy goes up and down in cycles, you semi-literate Bible sucker.

It often times takes years for the effects of the economic policies of elected officials to show their effects in the economy.

If you had half the brain you think you have, or if you weren't such a dedicated right-wing liar, you'd have known that.
 
Trump's boyfriend Vlad The (Orange Asshole) Impaler had more to do with increased fuel costs and the ripple effect that it caused worldwide, than some political remarks, you fucking simple-minded Bible thumper jackass. .

odd then that inflation preceded his invasion....but then Biden is to blame for the invasion, err.....the mild incursion...... of Ukraine as well........
 
Nixon is to blame for Nixon's inflation. You keep trying to blame inflation that started long before Carter on Carter.

Can you give us a reason to blame Carter for Nixon's inflation?

no one is....we are blaming Carter for the inflation of 1977-1980.......
 
odd then that inflation preceded his invasion....but then Biden is to blame for the invasion, err.....the mild incursion...... of Ukraine as well........

Biden had been in office just over one year when Putin invaded Ukraine.

COVID started on Trump's watch and preceded Biden's inauguration by one year.

Had Trump taken decisive action against it, it very likely would not have become the health crisis that it became.

Maybe tens of thousands fewer people would have died, and the economy would not have been affected to the degree that it was.

Unfortunately, Trump was more interested in his poll numbers and getting reelected than he was in doing his job as President.

So he sat on his thumb, called the pandemic "fake news" and did nothing until after the horse was out of the barn.

All to make his brainwashed zombie cult followers happy.

What an Einstooge you must be. :palm:
 
Biden had been in office just over one year when Putin invaded Ukraine.

COVID started on Trump's watch and preceded Biden's inauguration by one year.

Had Trump taken decisive action against it, it very likely would not have become the health crisis that it became.

Maybe tens of thousands fewer people would have died, and the economy would not have been affected to the degree that it was.

Unfortunately, Trump was more interested in his poll numbers and getting reelected than he was in doing his job as President.

So he sat on his thumb, called the pandemic "fake news" and did nothing until after the horse was out of the barn.

All to make his brainwashed zombie cult followers happy.

What an Einstooge you must be. :palm:

and inflation started when Biden became president and jacked up fuel and transportation expenses.......before he let Putin invade Ukraine....which is the topic we are discussung......not your lies.....
 
Biden had been in office just over one year when Putin invaded Ukraine.

COVID started on Trump's watch and preceded Biden's inauguration by one year.

Had Trump taken decisive action against it, it very likely would not have become the health crisis that it became.

Maybe tens of thousands fewer people would have died, and the economy would not have been affected to the degree that it was.

Unfortunately, Trump was more interested in his poll numbers and getting reelected than he was in doing his job as President.

So he sat on his thumb, called the pandemic "fake news" and did nothing until after the horse was out of the barn.

All to make his brainwashed zombie cult followers happy.

What an Einstooge you must be. :palm:

So Operation Warpspeed was taking no action ffs, you're an imbecile! There is absolutely no way that Biden would have done that, he'd have just handed everything over to the CDC and FDA.
 
What do you people think inflation is? Tell me exactly how you think it happens.

I'll tell you what I think, it's a supply and demand issue. That's it, that's all. How many of you think it's about monetary policy?
 
and inflation started when Biden became president and jacked up fuel and transportation expenses.......before he let Putin invade Ukraine....which is the topic we are discussung......not your lies.....

Please show us exactly how Biden "jacked up fuel and transportation expenses".

I just explained to you that it takes a significant amount of time for the effects of domestic policies to manifest themselves and be felt by consumers.

If any Presidential actions/inactions or policies caused any effects whether negative or positive after Biden took office, those acts or policies would have occurred during the PREVIOUS administration.

It's a shame that you are either too fucking stupid or too fucking dishonest or some combination of the two, to acknowledge that.

But everybody knows what a fucking slimeball, Trumpsucker idiot you are, so.... :dunno:

So Operation Warpspeed was taking no action ffs, you're an imbecile! There is absolutely no way that Biden would have done that, he'd have just handed everything over to the CDC and FDA.

Trump's Operation Warpspeed might just as well have been called Operation Waited Too Long.

Had he done it several months earlier when it first became evident that we were facing a serious public health crisis, it almost certainly would have lessened the impact on the health of both the people and the economy.

From Scientific American...

Faced with the pandemic, Trump suppressed scientific data, delayed testing, mocked and blocked mask-wearing, and convened mass gatherings where social distancing was impossible. Despite the mounting threats of COVID-19 and global warming, he pulled the U.S. out of the World Health Organization and the Paris climate accord. He installed industry insiders in regulatory posts tasked with protecting Americans from environmental and occupational hazards; their regulatory rollbacks resulted in 22,000 excess deaths from such hazards in 2019 alone. He pushed through a $1.9 trillion tax cut for the wealthy, creating a budget hole that he then used to justify cutting food and housing assistance for the needy. He tried, but failed, to repeal the ACA, then bent every effort to undermine it, pushing up the number of uninsured Americans by 2.3 million.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/...-have-exacted-a-heavy-toll-on-public-health1/

So fuck you, Trumpsucker retard. :fu:
 
Please show us exactly how Biden "jacked up fuel and transportation expenses".

I just explained to you that it takes a significant amount of time for the effects of domestic policies to manifest themselves and be felt by consumers.

If any Presidential actions/inactions or policies caused any effects whether negative or positive after Biden took office, those acts or policies would have occurred during the PREVIOUS administration.

It's a shame that you are either too fucking stupid or too fucking dishonest or some combination of the two, to acknowledge that.

But everybody knows what a fucking slimeball, Trumpsucker idiot you are, so.... :dunno:



Trump's Operation Warpspeed might just as well have been called Operation Waited Too Long.

Had he done it several months earlier when it first became evident that we were facing a serious public health crisis, it almost certainly would have lessened the impact on the health of both the people and the economy.

From Scientific American...



So fuck you, Trumpsucker retard. :fu:

And now for the truth, a commodity you're not very familiar with.

Why Operation Warp Speed worked

America’s vaccine initiative was more than a miracle

Redfield, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, phoned Alex Azar, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. With the words, “we have a problem in China,” Redfield broke to the secretary and those of us on his immediate staff news that was about to change the world. At the time, neither Redfield nor anyone else knew much about the characteristics of the virus that would become known formally as SARS-CoV-2, but he knew enough to sense that we needed to respond, and quickly.

Thus...

On Friday January 3, 2020, Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, phoned Alex Azar, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. With the words, “we have a problem in China,” Redfield broke to the secretary and those of us on his immediate staff news that was about to change the world. At the time, neither Redfield nor anyone else knew much about the characteristics of the virus that would become known formally as SARS-CoV-2, but he knew enough to sense that we needed to respond, and quickly.

Thus began an odyssey of pandemic response actions, strategies and regulatory processes that would consume HHS, where I worked, along with much of the rest of the administration, until Inauguration Day 2021. Only one of them, Operation Warp Speed, which delivered more safe and effective vaccines more quickly than almost all the world’s experts thought possible, has been universally acclaimed as a resounding success. This did not happen by accident.

Several weeks into a series of inadequate attempts to get out in front of the virus, two newly apparent characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 altered our perspective completely. First, the virus was spreading asymptomatically — someone who had no idea he was infected could easily infect others. Second, its clinical impact was asymmetric — it killed some within days and caused nothing but sniffles in others. This is when our imperative became clear: the only effective way to control this virus and its destructive impact on lives and the economy would be to develop and manufacture hundreds of millions of doses of safe and effective vaccines as quickly as possible.

At this point, the Trump administration — the Azar team in particular — had already begun evolving what would prove the world’s most innovative and effective response to the crisis: the record-time research, development, mass production, universal distribution and administration of a set of highly effective vaccines. Before the year was out, the public-private partnership we dubbed “Operation Warp Speed” was delivering two distinct Covid vaccines throughout the nation. An additional Warp Speed vaccine received approval and was in use by early 2021.

Operation Warp Speed was the most successful emergency vaccine development and deployment effort in history — and the most successful biomedical public-private partnership ever. To put its performance in perspective, think of when Roger Bannister ran the first four-minute mile. That was in 1954. Sixty-eight years later, the record is not much changed at three minutes, forty-three seconds. If we equate today’s record mile to the previous record for vaccine development, Warp Speed’s performance would be the equivalent of running the mile in forty-five seconds, an 80 percent improvement.

How do we measure the value of this speed? In lives? An August 2021 study by the National Institutes of Health asserts that the three Operation Warp Speed vaccines saved approximately 140,000 lives during their first six months alone, from December 2020 until May 2021. As of late May 2022, even after some waning protection of the initial doses, close to 90 percent of all Covid deaths were among the unvaccinated.

Or should it be measured in dollars? In summer 2021 University of Chicago economists and veterans of the Trump Council of Economic Advisors Casey B. Mulligan and Tomas J. Philipson estimated that “accelerating the arrival of the vaccines by six months was worth $1.8 trillion to the US economy — and more to the rest of the world.” Those dollars allowed thousands of stores, restaurants and small businesses to keep their doors open and, throughout the economy, translated to hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of jobs saved or restored.

Many have attributed Operation Warp Speed’s success to some sort of unnamed “miracle”; a deus ex machina arbitrarily introduced to unravel the mysteries of vaccine development, the vagaries of biological manufacturing and the logistical complexities of distribution. Others attribute it to little more than good luck. The core members of the Warp Speed team bristle at these suggestions of miracles and luck. They know that the project was not so much a scientific miracle as it was a meticulously designed initiative. Success was the result of a deliberate strategy, exacting execution, a superior team that worked together exceptionally well, a unique public-private partnership — and the remarkable leadership of a president and a cabinet secretary. It overcame media melodrama, outside political manipulation, internal squabbles and unprecedented logistical hurdles to produce unimaginable success in the middle of a pandemic that had all but paralyzed the entire world.

Some say we achieved success at the expense of safety. This could not be farther from the truth. The minimum number of enrollees in the Warp Speed clinical trials, per the FDA’s requirements, was half again larger than in normal vaccine trials. The interval from when the median trial participant received his second dose until the FDA would grant emergency use authorization was extended beyond that of previous trials. All other required steps and criteria were those of normal trials. Indeed, Peter Marks, who leads the FDA’s vaccine approval unit, restructured his team and its internal processes to work around the clock to accelerate the evaluations. So, while the process of evaluation was restructured, not a single standard of evaluation was compromised. In fact, the standards for approval were in many ways more stringent than in normal evaluations.

There were five simple keys to Operation Warp Speed’s success.

First, both vaccines that reached the population before the end of 2020 — from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna — took advantage of the mRNA genetic techniques that had been under development for more than a decade but hadn’t previously been applied to vaccines. Nonetheless, the OWS team had confidence in their potential and made substantial investments in their ultimate success. The advancements represented by the mRNA technology platform enabled vaccine design to be finished in days, not months or years as in the past.

The second key was performing simultaneously tasks that are typically performed sequentially: reserving, equipping and activating factories to fill massive orders of vaccine doses, vials and injection supplies; developing and making specialized packaging; lining up shippers like FedEx and UPS before they were actually needed; setting up tens of thousands of neighborhood sites for administering the shots at familiar places like CVS or Walgreens before the clinical trials revealed whether any vaccine would be safe and effective. The federal government assumed the financial risk associated with this in ways that would have been prohibitive for companies like Moderna.

The third key involved selecting vaccine candidates for investment in ways that spread scientific risk as a venture capitalist might distribute financial risk, over a variety of technologies and companies. We understood that some might fail, but we needed only one to be successful. Some did fail, but the successes delivered spectacular returns.

The fourth key required designing a governance structure that bypassed the slow grind of bureaucratic decision-making. We created a board which included only the essential players from HHS, the Department of Defense and the White House; it reported directly to the president. Decisions on vaccine-candidate selection, resources and distribution strategies were made in hours and days rather than weeks and months.

The fifth and final key was a leadership philosophy comprising three fundamental beliefs. First, OWS delegated key tasks to those who possessed the most knowledge and experience rather than to those with the loftiest titles. This included bringing in private-sector experts to help where the government lacked the talent. Second, we understood that the impact of collaboration and teamwork would far exceed that derived from individual talent. Debating differences of opinion was encouraged, but undermining the integrity of teamwork was not tolerated. Third, the project rigorously prevented the federal government from engaging in activities the private sector could perform better. This last guideline allowed for a unique public-private partnership: the government provided resources, clarity of objective, regulatory context and coordination for success. The private sector brought in its ingenuity and innovative spirit. The result delivered more vaccines to America and the world in less time than at any point in the history of biomedicine. The federal government enabled success; America’s private sector delivered it.

Again, Warp Speed was not so much a scientific miracle as a deliberate, strategically sound, meticulously designed initiative. Its leaders faced a broad spectrum of obstacles and challenges from within and without. It never really eliminated these obstacles and threats to its success, many of which persisted until the end. Rather, it overcame them with its impressive array of ingenuity, hard work, perseverance, principle and resilience.

https://thespectator.com/topic/why-operation-warp-speed-worked/
 
And now for the truth, a commodity you're not very familiar with.

Why Operation Warp Speed worked

Gee, I wonder why the author of that article Paul Mango, is bloviating so hard about how supposedly great OWS was... :thinking:

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I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that he was a member of the Trump administration HHS and was one of the key players behind it.

No, of course not. :palm:

At any rate, you're completely ignoring my point which was, AS I SAID...

Trump sat on his thumb and fucked around for nearly half a year before he was finally forced to get off his fat ass and do something.

Now lying Trumpsucker assholes like you blame President Biden for Trump's fallout.

But guess what... NOBODY'S BUYING YOUR BULLSHIT!!! :fu:
 
Please show us exactly how Biden "jacked up fuel and transportation expenses".

I see no reason to link his January executive order for you again......you know what it is, you've read it and you know what happened to oil prices the week following......its all been shown to you before......
 
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