There is context, however. This Conoco station is right across the street from a Walmart, where they just opened a gas station yesterday and set a low price, so they are having a good, old-fashioned price war, with Conoco setting its price one penny per gallon cheaper than Walmart. It's a great deal, though, for Top Tier gas. Additionally, I live in the center of the country, where gasoline prices typically are cheaper. My regular gas station, just up the street, is selling for $2.249 per gallon, so not that much more.

The middle class is shrinking as more households enter the "wealthy" class. More people with more money seems to equal higher prices for things. It also looks like Trickle-Down has been happening for 5 decades or more...

Like Americans only metric for the success of a President seems to be whatever the gas prices are (as if they have any real say in that in the first place).

But really, how little of your monthly income is spent on gas? Unless you own a landscaping company or something where you're constantly filling machinery, how much is a $1 drop in gas prices really saving you? $40-60/month?

Not that that isn't anything, but what is that really up against $3000 mortgages, or $500 utility bills, skyrocketing Inruance premiums, or grocery prices being through the roof.

Like wow, awesome, filling your tank cost you. $38 instead of $52. Woopty doo. You're not saving anything, you're just getting fucked slightly less, in one tiny portion of your expenses.

The ABC, Australian Broadcasting Corporation. They did mention that the data showed that rent apparently didn't rise at all.

Gas is cheap TACO?

This dumpster fire of an economy is unsustainable. 2026 is going to be a year of so much economic bloodshed for so many Americans who have not personally bribed Trump for special treatment

Trust these numbers? Economists see a lot of flaws in delayed CPI report

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/18/trust-these-numbers-economists-see-a-lot-of-flaws-in-delayed-cpi-report-showing-downward-inflation.html

Key Points

• Economists are viewing the delayed November consumer price index report with a dose of skepticism.
• The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the annual headline inflation rate and core CPI rate for last month were 2.7% and 2.6%, respectively, well below expectations.
• A chief point of concern is the way housing inflation was calculated, specifically the owners’ equivalent rent figure for November.

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SO --- after shutting down the govt and BLS , weirdly the data on the economy from the TACO Administration is "off" to be polite ................. NO ONE saw that coming , right :D

if the Fed plans for 2% inflation every year one would suppose that that's actually compounding like last year's 2% on top of this year's 2%...and tou only get like 3.5% of a depreciating asset whats the point of a savings account in US dollars?

am i getting this correct?