{"id":1640189,"date":"2022-09-13T15:04:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T19:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1640189"},"modified":"2022-09-13T15:04:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T19:04:55","slug":"prices-rise-in-august-surprising-economists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prices-rise-in-august-surprising-economists\/","title":{"rendered":"Prices Rise in August, Surprising Economists"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprices-rise-in-august-surprising-economists%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1640189&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/\">Latest News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">\u2018This was a disappointing report,&#8217; economist says of Consumer Price Index numbers<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/anna-allen\/\" title=\"Posts by Anna Allen\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Anna Allen<\/a> \u2022 September 13, 2022 3:00 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Consumer prices rose 0.1 percent in August, dashing many economists\u2019 hopes that lower energy prices would be enough to cool inflation, the <em>Washington Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2022\/09\/13\/inflation-cpi-august-fed\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Consumer Price Index is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/cpi.nr0.htm\">up 8.3 percent<\/a> over the last 12 months, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday. Food, housing, and medical care continue to see the largest price increases of the CPI contributors. While the inflation rate is a notch lower than it was in June and July, it is still higher than economists expected.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We thought we\u2019d see inflation start to come down, and instead what we\u2019ve seen is inflation really sort of entrenched,&#8221; Betsey Stevenson, professor of public policy and economics at the University of Michigan and a former member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, told the <em>Post<\/em>. &#8220;If there\u2019s no real progress, then that says, \u2018does the Fed need to take stronger action?\u2019 And if the Fed needs to take stronger action, what does that mean for the risk to peoples\u2019 livelihoods?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Americans battle 40-year high prices for everyday consumer products, the Biden administration continues to throw billions of dollars toward climate and <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/as-democrats-celebrate-a-massive-climate-bill-fewer-americans-care-about-climate-change-than-just-three-years-ago\/\">green energy initiatives<\/a>, and President Joe Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/even-bidens-favorite-economist-says-inflation-reduction-act-wont-reduce-inflation\/\">Inflation Reduction Act <\/a>will do little to actually reduce inflation, economists say.<\/p>\n<p>The 10.6 percent decline in gasoline prices was not enough to offset rising prices of other consumer goods. &#8220;The food index increased 11.4 percent over the last year, the largest 12-month increase since the period ending May 1979,&#8221; the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was a disappointing report,&#8221; Laura Rosner-Warburton, senior economist at MacroPolicy Perspectives, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/inflation-economy-prices-f2270f4c6ac55c084108d57cc1aec53a?utm_source=homepage&amp;utm_medium=TopNews&amp;utm_campaign=position_3\">told<\/a> the Associated Press. &#8220;It raises the risk of higher interest rates and a hard landing for the economy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With midterm elections two months away, the economy is still the main issue on voters\u2019 minds. Last month, A Pew Research Center poll showed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/politics\/2022\/08\/23\/midterm-election-preferences-voter-engagement-views-of-campaign-issues\/\">77 percent of voters<\/a> think the economy is &#8220;very important to their vote,&#8221; ranking it several points higher than crime and abortion.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest News \u2018This was a disappointing report,&#8217; economist says of Consumer Price Index numbers  Anna Allen \u2022 September 13, 2022 3:00 pm Consumer prices rose 0.1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1262,"featured_media":1898238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1640189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1640189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1898238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1640189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1640189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1640189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}