~~Looks like it isn’t real.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/02/illegal-border-crossings-plummeted-in-january/ ~~

I’ve been corrected. Is is real. It makes sense that they were just documenting his word salad.

More permanent copy for posterity: https://archive.is/5YlSS

https://archive.is/1CLRw

They’re keeping their key AI experts from travelling to the US.

I love the question and hope to see some good responses here.

If someone reading this has Ryan Mcbeth’s ear they might want to point him to this post. He’d likely have good suggestions. Here’s one of his lectures on disinformation: https://www.youtube.com/live/THfi_lxBvW0

Edit: Here’s another much shorter video of his on disinformation: https://youtu.be/DZ6eMYW7Xwc

Great article. Thanks for sharing.

Seeing the CPI plotted over time helps to get a clearer feel for how it is changing:

https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-price-index-by-category-line-chart.htm

Based on that chart, things don’t look as dire as the cited “~20% since 2020” stat. Yeah, we’re all still feeling the effect but it seems that the rate has dropped into normal-ish territory. Now the questions are “How close are businesses to really feeling the hurt of the lack of cheap borrowing?” and “If/when we drop interest rates how much immediate effect will that have on inflation? How much can we drop it without really spiking inflation again?”