No. The CPI was up 3.0% year-to-year in September. Inflation is determined by the change in CPI. If you don’t know these basics, you have no business posting anything about the economy.
Nobody says "inflation is up 50%" if it goes from 2.0% to 3.0%. People talk about the CPI and that's mainly it (along with the PPI and a few more).
Shoko is not the sharpest tool in the shed. He doesn't understand that the "inflation rate" may have gone up 50% in that period but inflation never did. Great guy but a bit of a nut.
And, for that matter, would you say inflation was up 550% under biden when it went from 1.4% to 9.1%?
Inflation is measured "year-to-year." Meaning it is measured how prices have gone up to 12 months ago. Shoko seems like a great guy but is a bit nuts.
Posting of facts now makes one “a bit nuts”. Inflation has increased more than 25% since April. This is a fact and exactly what I posted previously. I’m not sure why you’re so triggered by this fact, but I get the sense you believe all the nonsense Trump tells you, so I have to question your intelligence and ability to form independent thoughts.
Inflation is measured "year-to-year." Meaning it is measured how prices have gone up to 12 months ago. Shoko seems like a great guy but is a bit nuts.
Posting of facts now makes one “a bit nuts”. Inflation has increased more than 25% since April. This is a fact and exactly what I posted previously. I’m not sure why you’re so triggered by this fact, but I get the sense you believe all the nonsense Trump tells you, so I have to question your intelligence and ability to form independent thoughts.
Let me make it clear for Shoko:
If inflation is 2% in April and 3% in September - inflation HAS NOT GONE UP 50%. "The inflation RATE" has gone up 50%. Learn the difference between inflation and inflation rate. Inflation is measured against the rate 12 months prior.
Inflation is measured "year-to-year." Meaning it is measured how prices have gone up to 12 months ago. Shoko seems like a great guy but is a bit nuts.
Posting of facts now makes one “a bit nuts”. Inflation has increased more than 25% since April. This is a fact and exactly what I posted previously. I’m not sure why you’re so triggered by this fact, but I get the sense you believe all the nonsense Trump tells you, so I have to question your intelligence and ability to form independent thoughts.
Again - "inflation" has not increased in that time - THE INFLATION RATE" has increased in the time period. Do you not understand the difference????
Nobody says "inflation is up 50%" if it goes from 2.0% to 3.0%. People talk about the CPI and that's mainly it (along with the PPI and a few more).
Shoko is not the sharpest tool in the shed. He doesn't understand that the "inflation rate" may have gone up 50% in that period but inflation never did. Great guy but a bit of a nut.
Not sure you should be questioning anybody’s intelligence if you’re going to follow it up by posting idiotic, incorrect drivel. Inflation is a measure of the change in CPI over a given time period (say, a year). The CPI increased 2.3% from April 2024 to April 2025 (Thanks Biden!). The CPI increased 3.0% from September 2024 to September 2025 (Thanks Trump!). Therefore, by this measure, inflation was 2.3% in April and 3.0% in September. 3.0 - 2.3 = 0.7. 0.7 / 2.3 = 0.304. Thus, inflation increased by 30% from April to September. The CPI did not increase by 30% (and I never claimed it did).
Posting of facts now makes one “a bit nuts”. Inflation has increased more than 25% since April. This is a fact and exactly what I posted previously. I’m not sure why you’re so triggered by this fact, but I get the sense you believe all the nonsense Trump tells you, so I have to question your intelligence and ability to form independent thoughts.
Let me make it clear for Shoko:
If inflation is 2% in April and 3% in September - inflation HAS NOT GONE UP 50%. "The inflation RATE" has gone up 50%. Learn the difference between inflation and inflation rate. Inflation is measured against the rate 12 months prior.
Posting of facts now makes one “a bit nuts”. Inflation has increased more than 25% since April. This is a fact and exactly what I posted previously. I’m not sure why you’re so triggered by this fact, but I get the sense you believe all the nonsense Trump tells you, so I have to question your intelligence and ability to form independent thoughts.
Again - "inflation" has not increased in that time - THE INFLATION RATE" has increased in the time period. Do you not understand the difference????
I understand that you don’t know the difference between inflation and price (or CPI).
Shoko is not the sharpest tool in the shed. He doesn't understand that the "inflation rate" may have gone up 50% in that period but inflation never did. Great guy but a bit of a nut.
Not sure you should be questioning anybody’s intelligence if you’re going to follow it up by posting idiotic, incorrect drivel. Inflation is a measure of the change in CPI over a given time period (say, a year). The CPI increased 2.3% from April 2024 to April 2025 (Thanks Biden!). The CPI increased 3.0% from September 2024 to September 2025 (Thanks Trump!). Therefore, by this measure, inflation was 2.3% in April and 3.0% in September. 3.0 - 2.3 = 0.7. 0.7 / 2.3 = 0.304. Thus, inflation increased by 30% from April to September. The CPI did not increase by 30% (and I never claimed it did).
NO NO NO - inflation is about the same. THE INFLATION RATE increased by 30%. Are you off your rocker? But I still think you are a great guy/gal.
If inflation is 2% in April and 3% in September - inflation HAS NOT GONE UP 50%. "The inflation RATE" has gone up 50%. Learn the difference between inflation and inflation rate. Inflation is measured against the rate 12 months prior.
Define inflation please.
inflation is an increase in the average price of goods and services in terms of money.
Not sure you should be questioning anybody’s intelligence if you’re going to follow it up by posting idiotic, incorrect drivel. Inflation is a measure of the change in CPI over a given time period (say, a year). The CPI increased 2.3% from April 2024 to April 2025 (Thanks Biden!). The CPI increased 3.0% from September 2024 to September 2025 (Thanks Trump!). Therefore, by this measure, inflation was 2.3% in April and 3.0% in September. 3.0 - 2.3 = 0.7. 0.7 / 2.3 = 0.304. Thus, inflation increased by 30% from April to September. The CPI did not increase by 30% (and I never claimed it did).
NO NO NO - inflation is about the same. THE INFLATION RATE increased by 30%. Are you off your rocker? But I still think you are a great guy/gal.
Again define inflation and inflation rate please, because it’s clear you have no clue what these words mean.
YOU were the one that claimed they needed permits on the previous page:
"More TDS. Classic keyboard architect response. Did you forget I am an architect/ developer and Ivy League trained? All of what you say is nonsense because it is required to obtain permits. Your sense of things is adolescent at best."
Now you're saying they don't need permits or don't have them.
You claim to be an expert yet you continue to contradict yourself.
You're getting hung up on technicalities that I am having to explain to you without you fully understanding what you're talking about. For whatever reason you are hung up on approvals vs permit distribution by the AHJ, of which you would have no clue about if I didn't explain it to you, in various posts by which you were trying to argue different points outside of jurisdiction relevance. Kinda like: the AIA should somehow be involved. It's irrelevant and incorrect because they do not enforce anything like federal approvals for building construction. It makes no sense for you to even bring up the AIA.
You are deflecting by attempting to find holes in my explanations, not argument, that you do not fully understand. You are lost.
Anyway, you don't have a case for the actual point of discussion, which is that Trump did in fact go through all the proper processes to begin construction, so your small worries about asbestos and other dumb stuff are void. There are multiple guidelines and procedures that must be followed in 2025. You can't just go building something in the middle of D.C. without any of that. It's nonsense if you think otherwise.
Take a step back.
You wanted to know why people might be upset about this project.
I gave you several reasons.
You deflected that and said permits would address those issues:
"More TDS. Classic keyboard architect response. Did you forget I am an architect/ developer and Ivy League trained? All of what you say is nonsense because it is required to obtain permits. Your sense of things is adolescent at best."
You also listed several different organizations you said would be involved in that process.
A quick Google shows officials from those agencies saying no permits are issued and they haven't even seen the plans yet, despite demolition already having happened.
If you have evidence to the contrary, please feel free to post it. If you have no evidence, then everything you are writing is just idle speculation and is no longer worth replying to.
NO NO NO - inflation is about the same. THE INFLATION RATE increased by 30%. Are you off your rocker? But I still think you are a great guy/gal.
Again define inflation and inflation rate please, because it’s clear you have no clue what these words mean.
Inflation denotes the change in CPI (or another index) from 12 months ago to the current month. Change in inflation rate denotes the change from one month to another.
inflation is an increase in the average price of goods and services in terms of money.
Great.
So if the average price of goods was $100.00 in April, 2024, $101.00 in September, 2024, $102.30 in April, 2025, and $104.30 in September, 2025, then there was a 2.3% year-to-year increase in April, 2025 and a 3.0% year-to-year increase in September, 2025. The average price of goods increased by $2.30 year-to-year and inflation was 2.3% in April, 2025. The average price of goods increased by $3.03 year-to-year and inflation was 3.0% in September, 2025. The average price of goods increased by 30% MORE from September, 2024 to September, 2025 than it did from April, 2024 to April, 2025. Inflation -- the increase in the average price of goods and services -- increased by 30% from 2.3% to 3.0%.
Again define inflation and inflation rate please, because it’s clear you have no clue what these words mean.
Inflation denotes the change in CPI (or another index) from 12 months ago to the current month. Change in inflation rate denotes the change from one month to another.
You still haven't defined inflation rate. You only talked about change in inflation rate. How are inflation and inflation rate different?
Inflation denotes the change in CPI (or another index) from 12 months ago to the current month. Change in inflation rate denotes the change from one month to another.
You still haven't defined inflation rate. You only talked about change in inflation rate. How are inflation and inflation rate different?
I misspoke. Inflation rate is change in CPI (for example) from 12 months ago to the current month. You are coming up with this 30% by measuring the inflation rate from April to September. It is the rate of increase in inflation rate.
You still haven't defined inflation rate. You only talked about change in inflation rate. How are inflation and inflation rate different?
I misspoke. Inflation rate is change in CPI (for example) from 12 months ago to the current month. You are coming up with this 30% by measuring the inflation rate from April to September. It is the rate of increase in inflation rate.
So inflation (as you defined it previously) and inflation rate are the same? If not, then what is inflation?
Pro Tip: Canada is not your enemy but the greasy, drug addicted money-laundering bald mfker who made his own daughter give him lap dances and just spent the week tearing down something that didn’t belong to him is, also he knows nothing about economics.
Pro Tip: Canada is not your enemy but the greasy, drug addicted money-laundering bald mfker who made his own daughter give him lap dances and just spent the week tearing down something that didn’t belong to him is, also he knows nothing about economics.
Tariffs will wreck USA.
You could not be more wrong. Trump's academic major at Wharton was Economics. Not only that but numerous reports put him graduating at the top of his class at Wharton. You could characterize as an Economic genius if you wanted to.
inflation is an increase in the average price of goods and services in terms of money.
Great.
So if the average price of goods was $100.00 in April, 2024, $101.00 in September, 2024, $102.30 in April, 2025, and $104.30 in September, 2025, then there was a 2.3% year-to-year increase in April, 2025 and a 3.0% year-to-year increase in September, 2025. The average price of goods increased by $2.30 year-to-year and inflation was 2.3% in April, 2025. The average price of goods increased by $3.03 year-to-year and inflation was 3.0% in September, 2025. The average price of goods increased by 30% MORE from September, 2024 to September, 2025 than it did from April, 2024 to April, 2025. Inflation -- the increase in the average price of goods and services -- increased by 30% from 2.3% to 3.0%.
You are not understanding it. You have no idea about inflation. Most people don't so don't feel bad.