President Donald Trump is touting new government statistics that show inflation remained steady last month."JUST OUT: Great (LOW!) Inflation numbers for the USA," the president wrote in a social media post Tuesday morning.Trump's comments came an hour after the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) — a broad measure of how much everyday goods like gasoline, groceries and rent cost — edged up 0.3% on a monthly basis in December and held steady at 2.7% on a year-over-year basis.Core CPI, which strips out volatile items such as food and energy to better assess co...
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