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Less Than 1 Percent Inflation? Yes.

Source: Town Hall
by EJ Antoni, Ph.D.

“President Trump has been clamoring for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates on the grounds that inflation is much lower than what’s being officially reported. It turns out Trump is spot on, with today’s real inflation rate being only one-third of the official metrics. These numbers come from the real-time price aggregator Truflation, which monitors millions of prices daily. That is orders of magnitude higher than the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), which observes only a few thousand prices three times per month. According to Truflation, prices have risen an average of just 0.9 percent over the last 12 months. That’s about as good as it gets outside of a recession, especially when the Fed is engaged in money printing, euphemistically called ‘quantitative easing’. Truflation’s annual inflation rate is now much lower than the official inflation rate of 2.7 percent reported by the consumer price index (CPI).” (02/04/25)

https://townhall.com/columnists/ej-antoni/2026/02/04/less-than-1-percent-inflation-yes-n2670615

Steve Trinward

How To Increase the Total Fertility Rate

Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman

“Fifty or sixty years ago, when the risks of overpopulation played the same role in public discourse that the risks of global warming play today, a future of declining populations would have been considered good news. The predicted crisis did not happen; the populations of poor countries continued to grow but instead of getting poorer and hungrier as predicted they got richer and less hungry. The orthodoxy has reversed, declining population is now widely regarded as bad news, a threat to, among other things, there being enough young people to support an aging population.” (02/03/26)

https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/how-to-increase-the-total-fertility

Thomas L. Knapp

Prosecutors Seek Life Sentence for Man Who Tried to Shoot Trump at a Florida Golf Course

Source: US News & World Report

“Federal prosecutors are set to ask that a man convicted of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump on a Florida golf course in 2024 be sentenced to life in prison at a hearing on Wednesday. Ryan Routh is scheduled to appear before U. S. District Judge Aileen Cannon in Fort Pierce. Her courtroom erupted into chaos in September shortly after jurors found Routh guilty on all counts, including attempting to kill a presidential candidate and several firearm-related charges. Routh tried to stab himself in the neck with a pen, and officers quickly dragged him out. Routh’s sentencing had initially been scheduled for December, but Cannon agreed to move the date back after Routh decided to use an attorney during the sentencing phase instead of representing himself as he did for most of the trial.” (02/04/26)

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/florida/articles/2026-02-04/prosecutors-seek-life-sentence-for-man-who-tried-to-shoot-trump-at-a-florida-golf-course

Thomas L. Knapp