Soaring Inflation
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown
CNN
3.2 • 865 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Happening outbreaking news, soaring inflation, a new economic report sending wholesale inflation skyrocketing. |
| 0:08.0 | In fact, prices are at the highest they've been in nearly four years. |
| 0:12.0 | Plus, critical meetings, President Trump is now in Beijing, the leaders of the world's largest |
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| 1:08.4 | seen in this video. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. |
| 1:14.3 | I'm Wolf Blitzer with Pamela Brown, and you're in the Situation Room. |
| 1:25.2 | This is CNN breaking news. |
| 1:28.2 | Breaking news. Key new economic data shows inflation soaring in the United States. |
| 1:34.1 | The headline, it's worse than expected. |
| 1:36.7 | The new report shows wholesale prices are at the highest level in nearly four years. |
| 1:42.3 | Let's go live to CNN it at business and politics correspondent. |
| 1:45.7 | Vanessa, what's behind the headline? Well, Wolf, what we are seeing is that price increases |
| 1:52.2 | for businesses just blew past analysts' expectations on an annual basis. Inflation for businesses |
| 1:59.3 | rising to 6%. Just in March, it was 4%. So you're talking about |
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