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Media Got It Wrong—Again! Inflation Plummets to 2.7% · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: It's so nice to have you with us on the
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  Speaker 1: forty seven Morning Update, and this episode is going to
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  Speaker 1: deal with some great news for all of us. It
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  Speaker 1: is a huge victory and an inflation crushed by Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump's policies, delivering at two point seven percent. No one
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  Speaker 1: saw it coming, including CNBC, who even gasped at the
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  Speaker 1: numbers after they were released. So how did Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: Story number one.
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  Speaker 1: Could it be that the media and the Democrats got
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  Speaker 1: it wrong yet again on the economy. The same people
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  Speaker 1: that try to convince you that there was no such
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  Speaker 1: thing as Biden inflation, and instead they want you to
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  Speaker 1: believe that the economy was incredible shape when Joe Biden
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  Speaker 1: was in office. Well, once Donald Trump got elected, they
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  Speaker 1: want you to believe everything is terrible. Well guess what,
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  Speaker 1: now there's more data show they're just a bunch of liars.
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  Speaker 1: And this time it was bigger than even conservatives could
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  Speaker 1: have imagined. There was a sharp and honestly a unexpected tumble,
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  Speaker 1: not a decline, but a tumble in inflation to two
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  Speaker 1: point seven percent is more than just positive data point.
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  Speaker 1: It's a clear review of the economic pessimism pushed by
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  Speaker 1: critics of President Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 3: It's also a powerful validation.
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  Speaker 1: Of Trump policies that his administration has been advancing. Saying,
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  Speaker 1: trust me, it's going to work. The White House was
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  Speaker 1: absolutely right. For months, economists and political opponents of Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump have warned that Trump's aggressive economic agenda, including the
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  Speaker 1: tariffs that have brought in record dollars to the US,
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  Speaker 1: the energy expansion, deregulation, and pressure on global trade partners,
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  Speaker 1: would fuel, as they described it, inflation. Instead, the opposite
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  Speaker 1: has happened. Inflation not only did it not spike, it
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  Speaker 1: fell in a major way, and it fell faster than anyone,
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  Speaker 1: including those at the White House, were even willing to mention,
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  Speaker 1: much less claim it was going to become a reality.
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  Speaker 1: Energy dominance is doing exactly by the way, what Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump said it was going to do. One of the
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  Speaker 1: biggest drivers behind the falling inflation is energy prices, and
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  Speaker 1: this is where Trump's policies are having an outsized impact.
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  Speaker 1: Under Trump, federal barriers to domestic oil and gas production
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  Speaker 1: have been rolled back, leasing and drilling approvals have accelerated.
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  Speaker 1: The administration signaled clearly that America would return to energy
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  Speaker 1: independence in even a bigger way than it did when
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  Speaker 1: he was in office the first time. That confidence alone
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  Speaker 1: stabilized the markets, and then when supply expectations rise, prices
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  Speaker 1: fall not just at the pump but across the entire economy,
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  Speaker 1: which is exactly what we are now witnessing having a
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  Speaker 1: huge impact on inflation.
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  Speaker 3: Lower energy costs, reduced.
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  Speaker 1: Transportation expenses, manufacturing input costs, and grocery distribution prices. All
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  Speaker 1: of that good for the economy. As President Trump said
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  Speaker 1: on the Campain Trail, energy and the price touches everything
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  Speaker 1: Trump understood that from day one, and inflation numbers are
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  Speaker 1: now proving him to be exactly right. We also know
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  Speaker 1: that the media and the Democrats lied to you about
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  Speaker 1: the tariffs. They said over and over and over again,
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  Speaker 1: the tariffs were going to cause massive inflation. They said
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  Speaker 1: that shelves would be empty at places like Target, Walmart, Costco,
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  Speaker 1: and Sam's Club. That also never happened. One of the
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  Speaker 1: loudest criticisms of President Trump's economic strategy was by the
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  Speaker 1: left of the media. And they said the tariffs would
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  Speaker 1: not only raise consumer prices, but there would be massive
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  Speaker 1: supply chain issues. They then said that would make inflation
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  Speaker 1: skyrocket even more. That argument has also now flat out collapsed.
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  Speaker 1: What actually happened is this, the tariffs pressured foreign producers
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  Speaker 1: to actually absorb the cost us that did not get
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  Speaker 1: passed on to Americans. The way that the left tried
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  Speaker 1: to claim supply chains adjusted instead of breaking again, no
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  Speaker 1: empty shelves and no backlogs of basic necessities that Americans need.
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  Speaker 1: That was also a lie. It also had another huge impact.
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  Speaker 1: American manufacturing expanded rapidly, reducing the reliance on volatile foreign inputs,
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  Speaker 1: something the President said was a part of us having
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  Speaker 1: security and safety literally on a national security forefront. Instead
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  Speaker 1: of inflation spiraling upwards, which the left in the media
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  Speaker 1: said was a guaranteed thing, prices stabilized and markets recalibrated.
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  Speaker 1: Trump's tariffs weren't random, they were targeted leverage, forcing fairness
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  Speaker 1: and restoring balance. Inflation falling to two point seven percent
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  Speaker 1: shows that smart trade and enforcement doesn't punish the consumers,
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  Speaker 1: it actually protects them. And then the issue of deregulation,
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  Speaker 1: that is something that had a huge impact on the
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  Speaker 1: numbers we're witnessing right now. Deregulation reduce hidden inflation, and
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  Speaker 1: Americans have never been able to see the receipts before
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  Speaker 1: until Trump got into office. Inflation isn't just about sticker prices.
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  Speaker 1: It's also about compliance costs, regulatory delays, and bureaucratic drag
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  Speaker 1: from a government that just got way too big. Trump
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  Speaker 1: administration said, Hey, we're going to cut thousands of pages
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  Speaker 1: of federal regulations. We're going to reduce permitting delays. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to lower compliance costs for small and medium sized
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  Speaker 1: businesses with something else they said was vitally important. And
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  Speaker 1: when businesses spend less money navigating Washington, that's when you
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  Speaker 1: get what we're witnessing right now.
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  Speaker 3: Products that are faster the market. They end up hiring.
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  Speaker 1: More people and they keep prices lower. This invisible inflation,
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  Speaker 1: as the White House described it, rarely makes headlines, but
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  Speaker 1: removing it has a real, end measured effect. The two
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  Speaker 1: point seven percent inflation figure reflects those savings working their
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  Speaker 1: way through the economy, and then it comes down to
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  Speaker 1: confidence has returned to the marketplace and the markets have
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  Speaker 1: actually responded. Inflation is also psychological. When consumers and businesses
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  Speaker 1: believe prices will rise, they behave in ways that make
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  Speaker 1: it happen well. Trump's leadership clearly restored economic confidence. Businesses
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  Speaker 1: began investing again, consumers stopped panic buying, markets adjusted expectations downwards.
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  Speaker 1: That confidence reduces volatility, and volatility is a major inflation driver.
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  Speaker 1: Washington elites expected chaos, the markets and the people saw
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  Speaker 1: clarity and they understood the rules of the game because
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  Speaker 1: of a president that was transparent, which brings us to
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  Speaker 1: fiscal discipline, and that was reassuring itself to the American people.
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  Speaker 1: A renewed emphasis on fiscal restraint of our government DOGE
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  Speaker 1: was a large part of that. Again, made people feel
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  Speaker 1: more confident in their government. Trump is consistently pushed for
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  Speaker 1: cutting wasteful spending, targeted bloated bureaucracies, and challenged runaway federal programs.
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  Speaker 3: Even the signal of restraint matters.
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  Speaker 1: When investors and lenders believe government spending will be controlled,
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  Speaker 1: inflation expectations drop, which is exactly what we're seeing now.
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  Speaker 1: All of this has turned into one thing. Now it's
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  Speaker 1: showing in the real numbers. So what is the massive
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  Speaker 1: takeaway from this This is a gigantic win for every American,
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  Speaker 1: especially lower and middle class American families. The drop in
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  Speaker 1: inflation to two point seven percent didn't happen by accident,
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  Speaker 1: and it didn't happen despite Donald Trump's policies. It happened
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  Speaker 1: because of Donald Trump's policies. Energy dominance, lowered costs, economy
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  Speaker 1: wide tariffs, restored balance without triggering price spikes. Deregulation reduced
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  Speaker 1: hidden inflation, confidence, return to the markets, fiscal discipline, signal stability.
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  Speaker 1: The so called experts yet again predicted disaster. The data
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  Speaker 1: delivered a reality check to them. So this inflation report
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  Speaker 1: isn't just good news. It's proof that Trump's economic playbook
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  Speaker 1: works even under intense political and global pressure. Thank goodness,
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  Speaker 1: we have a present that's willing to stay the course
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  Speaker 1: and not chase an approval rating number.
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  Speaker 3: And now what we're witnessing is the real.
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  Speaker 1: Effects of what Trump's economy is at the end of
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  Speaker 1: his first year. And now you know what to expect
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  Speaker 1: moving into twenty twenty six.
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