{"id":337344,"date":"2026-03-19T11:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/337344\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T11:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:42:13","slug":"fox-host-blares-alarm-on-inflation-does-not-look-good-and-95-chance-to-get-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/337344\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox Host Blares Alarm On Inflation: \u2018Does Not Look Good\u2019 And \u201995% Chance To Get Worse\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fox Business host Taylor Riggs on Wednesday expressed alarm over the latest inflation data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really, really not happy about this inflationary report,\u201d Riggs said on \u201cThe Big Money Show\u201d after the Bureau of Labor Statistics\u2019 producer price index showed <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=38395X987171&amp;xs=1&amp;xcust=69bbaba4e4b05b29d3cab294&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2F2026%2F03%2F18%2Fppi-inflation-february-2026.html\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"inflation rose 0.7%\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69bbaba4e4b05b29d3cab294\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=38395X987171&amp;xs=1&amp;xcust=69bbaba4e4b05b29d3cab294&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2F2026%2F03%2F18%2Fppi-inflation-february-2026.html\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">inflation rose 0.7%<\/a> in February \u2014 well above the anticipated 0.3%.<\/p>\n<p>Riggs acknowledged it is only one data point and \u201cwe try to look at two or three-month trends but this does not look good to me and I don\u2019t like sitting here after everything we\u2019re talking about and saying, \u2018Oh well, OK, but it\u2019s just one month,\u2019 because unfortunately March is guaranteed, 95% chance, to get worse than what we saw.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Riggs noted the cost of food, alcohol, fuel and more is all rising \u2014 undercutting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s campaign promise to bring prices down. Rising oil prices, meanwhile, which contribute to higher prices across the board, have surged since Trump launched his war on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just don\u2019t like it,\u201d Riggs said of the inflation news. \u201cFresh and dried vegetables were up 49%. So, there\u2019s something going on. Maybe it is a one-off that we could debate, but I don\u2019t like the trend and I don\u2019t like that we\u2019re going to sit here and think March isn\u2019t going to get worse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch from the 4-minute mark here:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fox Business host Taylor Riggs on Wednesday expressed alarm over the latest inflation data. \u201cI\u2019m really, really not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,65,219,156182,1943,111,139,69,180663],"class_list":["post-337344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-donald-trump","tag-economy","tag-fox-business-network","tag-inflation","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-taylor-riggs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}