Key Fed inflation gauge at 2.2% in August, lower than expected

[The Mouth]

18. I'm on a fixed income.

The inflation we have now is a permanent pay cut.

The utter uncaring of many on both sides was a 'Fuck You' to pensioners, almost everyone I know is royally fucked compared to a few years ago.

I will give two shits, or any credit when it costs me the same to heat my house or buy a tank of gas as it did in 2019 or even 2021.

Fuck inflation and anyone who doesn't regard it as *the* most existential threat facing working and retired people.

This all is pissing on the burned-down house after everything is damaged.

At least Jimmy Carter, and hell, even Gerald Ford, 'got it' in the 1970's: inflation is just-this-side of incoming nuclear missiles or a wildfire about to burn up houses and people in terms of importance and urgency relative to *ANY* other issue.