Greg Ip
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It went wonderful, yeah.
It's unaffordable to live here, so you have to work full-time.
Or we have to, at least.
I don't want to speak for everybody, but without child care, that's not possible, and so we'd have to move somewhere else.
It took Daisy one day to win you over that much?
Well, yeah, I'd say that it is a good report.
Well, yeah, I'd say that it is a good report.
The inflation rate of 2.4%, certainly a lot lower, as you were saying, than it was a few years ago.
The inflation rate of 2.4%, certainly a lot lower, as you were saying, than it was a few years ago.
And economists like to take out the energy and food portions, not because they don't actually think those are important, but because they're very volatile.
And economists like to take out the energy and food portions, not because they don't actually think those are important, but because they're very volatile.
Right.
Right.
And if you do that, you come up with an inflation rate of only around 2.5%, which is the lowest for that number since 2021, just after the pandemic.
And if you do that, you come up with an inflation rate of only around 2.5%, which is the lowest for that number since 2021, just after the pandemic.