Sagar
speaker
4,596 appearances
17 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 10 Jun
Sagar’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 17 in all, peaking in Feb 2026 with 5.
Appearances
2.4% in February 2026.
January 2026.
By March, it's climbing to 3.3.
Right now, 4.2.
As a reminder, 3% is where it was when President Trump took office.
office in January of 2025.
This is, as CNBC noted, the highest since April of 2023, which is right as we were coming down from the pandemic high in June of 2022.
CPI was at 9.1%.
So climbing back up.
But actually, if you go historically, without the pandemic, the CPI hasn't been at 4.2%, again, excluding the pandemic.
for a very, very, very long time.
I'm going back here to post-recession.
It's looking like, yeah, middle of the recession, we got up to 5%, June 2008.
The other thing that the report makes clear is that Trump's other policy, which is to just flood money to AI, is also driving up prices all over the place in the obvious way, driving up your utility bills, your electric bills.
But also...
For decades, what we've experienced as consumers is the cost of technology going down.
TVs come out, like, wow, that's cool.
I can't afford it.
I'll wait a year or two until the price of that comes way down.
That's been what's going on.
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