Both sides are guilty of employing selective statistics to win an argument, but, over the past year, the Biden White House and congressional Democrats have turned the phrase “cherry-picking data” into an art form. …
President Joe Biden would have you believe that inflation, one of the country’s two top issues, is “zero,” as he likes to put it, or just “an inch.”
A deep dive into the consumer price index numbers shows that the Democrats’ happy talk on inflation is just that. Here’s a quick comparison of year-over-year inflation data for key consumer categories in January 2021 — the numbers Biden inherited — and the same data for August 2022.
Overall CPI: January 2021, 1.4 percent; August 2022, 8.3 percent
Gasoline CPI: January 2021, -8.6 percent; August 2022, 25.6 percent
Home Food CPI: January 2021, 3.7 percent; August 2022, 13.5 percent
Electricity CPI: January 2021, 1.5 percent; August 2022, 15.8 percent
Medical Care CPI: January 2021, 1.9 percent; August 2022, 5.4 percent
Apparel CPI: January 2021, -2.5 percent; August 2022, 5.1 percent
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