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This is the Tom Hartman program.

So hairdryer climate mathematics.

I'll share that with you in a moment.

It's an absolutely fascinating story.

Oh, also, the inflation numbers came out, and this might slow down the rate or the speed with

which they're putting in rate hikes. On a month-a-month basis, inflation has been running really,

really low. It's been around a tenth of a percent, you know, on a month-a-month basis, but on a

year-over-year basis, it's a little over 6 percent. Most of the inflation that we are counting right

now on a year-to-year basis actually happened six to 12 months ago.

And so, you know, you get this rolling annual average. So as we move into the next three or four

months, you're going to start seeing inflation numbers going down significantly in the year-to-year

category. But, you know, whether it'll be soon enough to convince the Republican Jerome Powell

that he shouldn't throw the economy into a recession just in time for an upcoming presidential

election. We'll see. We'll see. But anyhow, prices were 6.5 percent higher in December than a year

before, and they fell tenth of a percent compared to last month. So not only our prices no longer

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