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Prices still went up in April, but inflation did cool, more than expected.

We can now tell you the consumer price index is up 3.4% in a year, and

setting aside volatile food and fuel costs, the consumer price index increase over 12 months was the lowest in three years.

For people fervently hoping for interest rates to go down sooner rather than later,

this is good news, pulling the 10-year interest rate down to 4.37% lowest in a month. But can there be too much

slowing? Let's bring in Jared Dillion, an author and founder of Jared Dillion Money, a personal finance site.

Welcome.

Thanks for having me.

Consumer inflation, little tamer than the experts had forecast.

I mean, price is still going up, I suppose.

What do you make of this? I think people expected a much more

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