Investors hailed last week’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) report as proof that the worst of inflation is behind us.
The index increased 8.5% in July from the same month a year ago, down from 9.1% in June.
Wall Street celebrated by pushing stock prices up.
I dug into the numbers. There does seem to be a reason to celebrate, but maybe not as much as we hoped.
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