{"id":359760,"date":"2025-12-20T10:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T10:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/359760\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T10:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T10:23:10","slug":"maga-media-praise-november-inflation-report-that-economists-caution-is-a-mirage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/359760\/","title":{"rendered":"MAGA media praise November inflation report that economists caution is a mirage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Even as multiple economists were explaining that the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/archives\/cpi_12182025.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 2025<\/a> Consumer Price Index inflation report was distorted due to the recent government shutdown, MAGA media figures were celebrating the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/12\/18\/cpi-inflation-report-november-2025.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">slightly lower than expected<\/a> annualized\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/archives\/cpi_12182025.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">inflation reading<\/a> of 2.7%. Trump sycophants, especially on Fox, praised the report, congratulated President Donald Trump, and suggested that it vindicated his economic policies that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/tariffs-trade\/after-economy-fell-flat-2025-fox-promised-next-year-looks-its-going-be-amazing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">contributed to a stumbling economy<\/a> this year. (Ironically, the 2.7% inflation rate being celebrated by the president\u2019s media allies is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/graph\/?g=1OX47\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">virtually identical<\/a> to the inflation rate registered in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/archives\/cpi_12112024.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 2024<\/a>, when coverage of high and persistent inflation\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/broadcast-networks\/mainstream-news-coverage-economy-was-inadequate-lead-2024-election\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dominated the news nationwide<\/a> and helped carry Trump to victory.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More than a week before the new CPI report, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalreserve.gov\/mediacenter\/files\/FOMCpresconf20251210.pdf#page=9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">warned<\/a> that the upcoming numbers \u201cmay be distorted \u2026 because data was not collected in October and half of November,\u201d concluding, \u201cWe&#8217;re going to have to look at it carefully and with a somewhat skeptical eye.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even as multiple economists were explaining that the\u00a0November 2025 Consumer Price Index inflation report was distorted due to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":{"0":"post-359760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}