S14 EP139: Hour 2 - Build. Build. Build.
The Erick Erickson Show
Erick Erickson
4.5 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Democrats refuse to move into the future and embrace the need for more power plus the AP takes it upon itself to attack a church because it teaches the gospel and they don't like it.
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| 0:00.0 | How would you like a 15% discount to my daily email, the stack of stuff, the show notes, |
| 0:05.4 | discounts to the conference, all of that. |
| 0:07.2 | All you need to do is text the word show to 33777. |
| 0:11.5 | You'll get the annual subscription with a 15% discount to my daily email. |
| 0:16.8 | You'll get the stack of stuff, the links to the show notes, discounts to the conference, |
| 0:20.1 | and so much more. |
| 0:21.4 | All you have to do is text the word show, S-H-O-W, to 33-777-7. |
| 0:27.4 | Text show to 33-777-7. |
| 0:42.2 | Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our Two. |
| 1:15.5 | Greetings. It's Eric Erickson here. I hope you are doing well. The full number, if you want to be on the program, is 8779373425. A lot of people, just so you know, this is conversation on TV right now on CNBC and a lot of the inflation numbers where core inflation is higher than expected, general inflation, less than expected, because energy prices continue to go down. There's real conversation that we might actually see a 50 basis point cut from the Federal Reserve. |
| 1:18.3 | That's a half a percentage point cut come September. |
| 1:21.3 | Not a bad, not a bad deal. |
| 1:31.6 | The interest, rather inflation data that came out, it's actually a mixed bag for the president. |
| 1:35.9 | You know, both sides glum on to whatever side helps them. |
| 1:40.6 | So the president's team, they're championing the consumer price index number. |
| 1:42.5 | It's less than expected. |
| 1:46.8 | It came in at 2.7% instead of 2.8, 2.9% where the experts thought it was going to be still higher than the 2% the Fed likes. And what's really keeping prices |
| 1:54.0 | from going up is energy prices. Gas prices keep going down. And of course, progressives hate it. Now, the Democrats are seizing on core numbers, core inflation, and that actually is the concerning one. The core number isn't great because energy prices and food prices are pretty volatile, and food prices have a lot to do with energy prices. |
| 2:18.5 | So energy prices have gone down so much that food prices, grocery store prices have gone down a tenth of a percent. |
| 2:24.0 | Food prices generally not going up at all. |
| 2:29.0 | And that's good. |
| 2:30.2 | Grocery prices down a tenth of a percent. |
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