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coverage. Well, we begin today with the inflation news, which again is terrible and was widely

expected, according to the Wall Street. Journal, U.S. inflation surged to a new four-decade high of

8.5% in March from the same month a year ago, driven by skyrocketing energy and food costs,

supply constraints, and strong consumer demand. It's a lot of fun what's happening here under Joe Biden, isn't it? I didn't think that this man could set so many things on fire so quickly, but it turns out that when you have a senile old doof in the White House who's running around spilling gasoline and then lighting matches, this is what happens. The Labor Department on Tuesday said the

Consumer Price Index, which measures what consumers pay for goods and services last month,

rose at its fastest annual pace since December 1981, up from the 7.9% annual rate in February.

Rising prices have been unrelenting. This is six straight months of inflation above 6%. That is

well above the Federal Reserve's average 2% target. U.S. stocks gave up their early

gains. Government bond yields declined following the inflation report. So this is all just stellar stuff.

For their part, the Biden White House is trying to downplay all of this. So Joe Biden was in Iowa

trying to downplay this by suggesting it is the Putin price hike. This is eminently

untrue, as we'll explore in just one moment. Here was Joe Biden. I'm not going to wait to take

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