Well, howdy there, internet people, it's bell again.

So today, we're going to talk about Trump's inflation soaring again.

Okay, so the producer price index, that's wholesale inflation, came in hot in February.

Really hot. It increased at a seasonally adjusted 0.7% for the

month. Expectations were an increase of 0.3%. So an easier way to say that is that producer inflation

came in at more than double what was expected.

PPI inflation is at 3.4% for the year. Core PPI, which excludes volatile food and energy costs,

was even worse. It's up 3.9% for the year. The PPI, wholesale inflation, is generally seen as a leading

indicator of the CPI, our inflation. Think of PPI as the increase the grocery store pays,

and CPI is the increase that you pay.

The grocery store pays it first, before you see it reflected in the prices on the shelves.

So this reading says that you can expect more inflation headed your way.

I'm sure that's what you wanted to hear.

It turns out that slapping massive taxes on everything imported raised prices. Who knew?

And while I'm handing out good news, I'll go ahead and get this out of the way. This is for February.

Trump's Operation Epstein Fury didn't start until the last day of the month.

All of the inflationary pressure Trump added by going after Iran isn't in this report.

That will be filtering in through the March and April reports.

Which means even once February's inflation is absorbed by the consumer,

there's a whole new batch coming in from the rising fuel costs,

which tends to drive up the cost of, well, pretty much everything.

So, when we already have rising wholesale inflation in February,

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