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Biden claims inflation was 9% when he took office – it was 1.4%
Fox Business ^ | May 9, 2024 | Breck Dumas

Posted on 05/09/2024 9:45:47 AM PDT by BradtotheBone

President Biden claimed on Wednesday that inflation was at 9% when he entered the White House in January 2021, when, in fact, the consumer price index (CPI) was at a mere 1.4% at the time.

"No president has had the run we’ve had in terms of creating jobs and bringing down inflation," Biden told CNN's Erin Burnett in an interview. "It was 9% when I came to office – 9%."

It’s a notion Biden has alluded to before. In April, the president said: "Look, we have dramatically reduced inflation from 9% down to close to 3%. We’re in a situation where we’re better situated than we were when we took office where we – inflation was skyrocketing."

But under Biden's watch, the inflation rate ballooned from 1.4% to 9.1% in June 2022. While it has now declined to 3.5% as of March 2024, it remains well above the Federal Reserve’s target rate of 2%.

Biden's claims come as he attempts to make the case to the American people that the economy is better under his "Bidenomics" agenda than it was under his predecessor, former President Donald Trump, whom he is running against for a second term.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: inflation; lyingbiden; pathologicalliar
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Biden blames his predecessor for his failures almost as much as Obama blamed Bush.
1 posted on 05/09/2024 9:45:47 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
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To: BradtotheBone

Will he or will he not get away from it? We’ll know in November but I’m not so sure.


2 posted on 05/09/2024 9:47:12 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: BradtotheBone

Yet, there are dumb asses who will vote for this POS.


3 posted on 05/09/2024 9:47:30 AM PDT by Parley Baer (.)
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To: BradtotheBone

It’s not that he lies, it’s not that he’s always been a liar, it’s that he lies so easily.


4 posted on 05/09/2024 9:47:35 AM PDT by henkster (He's got a day time job; he's doing all right)
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To: BradtotheBone

What I am most grateful for is that my chocolate ration has increased from 30 grams to 25 grams.


5 posted on 05/09/2024 9:48:11 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
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To: BradtotheBone

If you asked Biden what 1% represents, he couldn’t give you a coherent answer. Same with Obama and Harris. These morons have a grasp of economics lower than a chimp’s.


6 posted on 05/09/2024 9:51:43 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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To: BradtotheBone

well biden is obama.. so...


7 posted on 05/09/2024 9:52:35 AM PDT by cableguymn
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To: BradtotheBone

Senile old LIAR.

Democrat Dream!


8 posted on 05/09/2024 9:57:39 AM PDT by LeonardFMason
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To: BradtotheBone

Bidenskyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy is a liar!!!


9 posted on 05/09/2024 9:58:22 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Weird how the invading hordes of illegal foreign deadbeats didn't start until FJB took the throne.)
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To: BradtotheBone

Joe has dementia. that’s what the doctors said. He can’t be held responsible for the classified docs in the garage........LOL


10 posted on 05/09/2024 10:03:25 AM PDT by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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To: BradtotheBone

He didn’t say: “Not a joke”?


11 posted on 05/09/2024 10:08:16 AM PDT by Fido969
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To: DIRTYSECRET

the inflation rate as stated when biden took office and its the aggregate number that they don’t mention is the problem. the first year it went up 9%in 21’ then 5% in 22, then 4% in 23 and 3.8% so far in 24, that is close to a 22% loss of purchasing power since he took office. it hasn’t retreated at any time to save us money and he is going to increase our taxes if reinstalled.


12 posted on 05/09/2024 10:12:58 AM PDT by bdfromlv (Leavenworth hard time)
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To: BradtotheBone

What would be an effective grass roots way of getting the info out that Biden is confusedly lying about inflation, claiming it was 9% when he took office, instead of 1.4%?


13 posted on 05/09/2024 10:16:06 AM PDT by desertsolitaire (Doomed to be Cassandra-like?)
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To: BradtotheBone

Don’t ya’ll remember when he was first in his class with Neils Bohr? Frat buddies with Thomas Sowell?


14 posted on 05/09/2024 10:16:38 AM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: BradtotheBone

Groceries are up anywhere from 30-120%. Biden can kiss my butt-er. Most people will accept prices are up 18-30% but I would say that everything has doubled. A burger, fries and drink is more than doubled; in Kalifornia it doubled and a half. Since the US is a more service oriented economy, we are slipping into the kind of barren landscape that Europe has, e.g., a place where people cannot afford to eat out more than a few times a year if they are a family unit.


15 posted on 05/09/2024 10:19:14 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: BradtotheBone

Let me guess. The media whore Erin Burnett not only didn’t refute the lie, she offered to fellate the ancient senile rotting pedophile right there on the set.


16 posted on 05/09/2024 10:25:29 AM PDT by Newtoidaho (All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
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To: BradtotheBone

Do you actually believe that when Biden opens his mouth the truth about anything will come out?


17 posted on 05/09/2024 10:26:17 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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Rents in these US cities are rising faster than wages — with NYC hit the worst

NY Post ^ | 05/08/2024 | Hannah Frishberg
Posted on 5/9/2024, 9:06:59 AM by ChicagoConservative27

Pay day seriously pales compared to rent day — and it’s only getting worse.

A new report has found that, since 2019, rent has gone up on average 1.5 times faster than wages in 44 out of the nation’s 50 largest metros, and nowhere more so than in New York City.

According to an analysis by StreetEasy of data from Zillow, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics and its own site, the Big Apple has seen the greatest gap in rent growth relative to wage growth in recent years.

Specifically, the city watched wages go up 1.2% between 2022 and 2023, while rents went up 8.6%, a 7.4 percentage point difference.

That’s far more than any of the other top 10 wage-rent growth gap cities. Boston, which came in second place, had a 6.8 point difference (with its wages going down by 1% and its rents going up by 5.8%) and Cincinnati, which came in third, had a 6.4 point difference (wages went up .9% while rents went up 7.3%).

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18 posted on 05/09/2024 10:28:45 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ((“Surrender often means wisely accommodating to what is beyond our control!” — Sylvia Boorstein.))
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To: BradtotheBone

1st rule of politics:

Don’t believe your own propaganda........................


19 posted on 05/09/2024 10:42:48 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Parley Baer

WHAT A LIAR THIS GUY IS.

LIAR !!!


20 posted on 05/09/2024 10:54:09 AM PDT by Pearfect (Ou can't beat the competition lock them u)
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