JUST IN: Bureau of Labor Statistics postpones key inflation data report

[Swede]

Uh-oh

JUST IN: Bureau of Labor Statistics postpones key inflation data report

— Axios (@axios.com) 2025-09-19T21:42:55.815Z

https://www.axios.com/2025/09/19/bls-cpi-report-inflation

[Klarkashton]

1. Fudge the #s ? YES

[chicoescuela]

2. No one really needs that information anyway, right?

Sarcasm ya all. We all know exactly where inflation is?

[Bluetus]

9. Well, it ain't 2% or 3%

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EVERYTHING I buy is up at least 25% from where it was a year ago. (Gasoline is not, but I drive and EV and I only buy a few gallons of gas a year for a lawn mower and pressure washer.)

The inflation reports have always been a farce. They have to be because a true reporting of inflation would be devastating to the Federal budget when you consider what that would do to Social Security payments and everything else that is pegged to the CPI. So a long time ago, they solved that problem by deciding to report inflation as a "market basket" of a few carefully selected items, most of which are either directly or indirectly price-controlled, usually through the Agriculture programs.

People know what they have to pay to go to a restaurant, to buy school supplies, to buy clothes, to buy a car, to pay for insurance on their car or house, and so on. None of that stuff is in the "market basket".

[chicoescuela]

10. 100%. The system is rigged if you plan on surviving on social security.

[Prairie Gates]

13. It's fucking crazy - EVERYTHING is through the roof

[newdeal2]

3. The whole ship is starting to sink

They’ve tried to attack everything at once and it’s hopefully finally biting them in the ass. By sometime next year it will be even more obvious how bad things are.

[Wounded Bear]

4. Of course they did...

Anybody who is surprised has not been paying attention.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

5. There will be deflation of the inflation data by bad actors.

[spanone]

6. Here we go...dictators don't want facts.

[RockRaven]

7. More....... Falsification........ Needed........

Plus they will gin up an outrage for the new release date to dominate the news cycle. More murders of foreign civilians? A new BS load of "evidence" in the Kirk shooting? The FBI classification of all trans people as terrorists?

[sinkingfeeling]

8. Too afraid to tell the truth.

[tinrobot]

11. Nobody wants to be the messenger

[Prairie Gates]

12. A trip to the grocery store tells the story immediately: meat is so expensive that nobody is buying it

You have to wait until it's one day to the sell by date and then (and only then) do they discount it. And not a lot. Staples are up. Even stupid shit like cat litter is up $2.00 a bag from last year.

They can hide the report all they want. Any reasonable person knows that Trump has failed in his fundamental promise: to reduce food and energy costs.