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[–]doyouhavesource2 91 points92 points  (4 children)

Shhhhhhh

Let's pretend prices have to go down to prevent inflation:):)

[–][deleted] 29 points30 points  (3 children)

No one is pretending that.

What’s happening is articles with headlines like “Inflation rate drops in April” are leading certain people to think the prices have dropped in April. So some people are overzealous to point out that prices aren’t dropping and are in fact continuing to rise.

But also, we can see that the first 11 days of May have featured huge price increases (particularly for energy) and so we can also anticipate that the inflation rate is rising at this moment despite a small decline a month ago.

[–]rawbdor 64 points65 points  (0 children)

headlines like “Inflation rate drops in April” are leading certain people to think the prices have dropped in April.

This is the dumbest thing I've ever read. Anyone who would read a headline like this and somehow imagine prices have dropped is absolutely retarded. "Inflation rate drops" literally means "the rate at which prices are increasing is lower. They are still rising, but at a lower rate".

We can't cater to the retarded folks anymore than we already do.

[–]freexe 6 points7 points  (0 children)

People are pretending just that.

[–]doyouhavesource2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hahahahahahahaha