Christopher Hitchens
The Enlightenment is Humanity’s ONLY Salvation.
this is for all the idiots who thought Trump would help bring prices down and improve the economy. Dont worry I know most of you won’t admit your cult leader, who is also the president, was wrong.
EXCERPT from Chicago Tribune:
If you’ve been to the store lately, the price of some goods may look a little different. From bananas and oranges to chicken, a handful of everyday grocery items are at or less than a cent away from record prices.
The most noticeable of these? Ground beef. Now more than $6.60 a pound, the cost of ground beef is soaring to all-time highs, jumping another 30 cents month-over-month, according to the latest data from the consumer price index.
But before you start budgeting, most consumer prices showed very minimal changes. The cost of eggs and bread are down, and nationally, gas is only a cent more than it was the previous month.
Across the board, inflation accelerated in August, rising 0.4%. Compared with a year ago, consumer prices are about 2.9% higher, an increase economists largely attribute to sweeping tariffs levied by President Donald Trump.
The Tribune is tracking 11 everyday costs for Americans — eggs, milk, bread, bananas, oranges, tomatoes, chicken, ground beef, gasoline, electricity and natural gas — and how they are changing, or not, under the second Trump administration. This tracker is updated monthly using CPI data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Full Article: https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/16/august-us-consumer-goods-price-tracker/
EXCERPT from Chicago Tribune:
If you’ve been to the store lately, the price of some goods may look a little different. From bananas and oranges to chicken, a handful of everyday grocery items are at or less than a cent away from record prices.
The most noticeable of these? Ground beef. Now more than $6.60 a pound, the cost of ground beef is soaring to all-time highs, jumping another 30 cents month-over-month, according to the latest data from the consumer price index.
But before you start budgeting, most consumer prices showed very minimal changes. The cost of eggs and bread are down, and nationally, gas is only a cent more than it was the previous month.
Across the board, inflation accelerated in August, rising 0.4%. Compared with a year ago, consumer prices are about 2.9% higher, an increase economists largely attribute to sweeping tariffs levied by President Donald Trump.
The Tribune is tracking 11 everyday costs for Americans — eggs, milk, bread, bananas, oranges, tomatoes, chicken, ground beef, gasoline, electricity and natural gas — and how they are changing, or not, under the second Trump administration. This tracker is updated monthly using CPI data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Full Article: https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/16/august-us-consumer-goods-price-tracker/
