Here is the money line in the entire piece... Imma gonna give it away:
Roughly 75–80% of the total increase in prices from 2020 through 2025 had already happened before the second Trump term began, based on CPI levels over that period.
Yep. Unfortunately, some people don't understand the difference between prices and inflation. Most of the inflation (the very worst part) was over by 2025. The elevated prices came down when they were a more purely supply and demand problem, but the base increases were there to stay.
That 2020 dollar stuffed in the mattress now needed another quarter to buy what it did just four years before. It was worth that much less.
Still is, that hasn't changed.
What did change was the rate at which those prices were going up (at which the money was being devalued), back to more normal rates of 2-3% instead of 6-8%.
Any reductions in prices will come from either changes in geopolitics and supply chains, or increased efficiency allowing prices to fall, especially in the case of globally traded commodities, where the purchasers set the prices.
