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Trump wins the first round against inflation

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18.03.2025

'The Big Money Show' panel discuss whether Trump tariffs will cause more inflation.

Just one month on the job, President Donald Trump has already overseen a dramatic improvement in the economy, with the monthly inflation rate being cut in half. By any measure, inflation improved significant in February and the Trump administration is perfectly positioned to not only slow inflation further, but eventually bring prices down.

For the month of February, the first month of the Trump administration, the consumer price index (CPI) increased just 0.2 percent from January. That was less than half the 0.5-percent increase in prices from December to January, the last month of the Biden administration.

What makes the February slowdown of inflation more dramatic was that it was preceded by seven months of inflation reaccelerating. Put simply, Biden handed Trump an inflation mess that was getting worse, not better—at least, not until Trump started reversing Biden’s radical agenda.

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And what a reversal it has been! Instead of strangling reliable American energy production, the new mantra is "drill, baby drill." Instead of additional burdensome regulations, Trump pledges to cut........

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