Why Inflation is Lower Than Expected
Be Wealthy & Smart
Linda P. Jones
4.8 • 883 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Discover why inflation is lower than expected.
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| 0:00.0 | Be Wealthy and Smart, episode 1624. |
| 0:03.5 | I'm going to live the rich life, full than best life, yes life. |
| 0:10.8 | See if y'all know what I mean, put your hands up and declare with me, yeah, I'm full of bread, |
| 0:17.4 | I'm going to live a good life, beautiful of good life. |
| 0:21.6 | A beautiful and glorious life. |
| 0:24.6 | Step into a world of wealth and financial freedom without budgets, boredom or bosses on Be Wealthy and Smart. |
| 0:33.6 | And now, here's your host, Linda P. Jones. |
| 0:44.6 | Welcome to Be Wealthy and Smart. I'm Linda P. Jones, America's wealth mentor, empowering women and men worldwide to financial freedom. |
| 0:53.3 | On today's show, we're going to talk about how inflation numbers came in lower than expected, which is a really good thing when we're hoping that interest rates will decline. The consumer price index for |
| 0:55.1 | January was at 2.4% from the same time a year ago, which was down 0.3 percentage points from |
| 1:03.0 | December, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The cost of goods and services rose at a |
| 1:09.0 | slower annual rate than expected in January, |
| 1:11.7 | providing hope that the nagging U.S. inflation problem could be starting to ease. |
| 1:17.1 | Excluding food and energy, the core CPI was up 2.5%, which is the lowest level since April of 2021. |
| 1:25.9 | Economists, surveyed by Dow Jones, had been looking for an inflation rate of about |
| 1:30.8 | 2.5% for both readings. On a monthly basis, the All-Items Index was up a seasonally adjusted |
| 1:38.5 | 0.2% while Core gained 0.3%. And the forecast had been 0.3% for both. |
| 1:47.0 | Shelter costs rose 0.2% for the month, and although that category accounted for much of the |
| 1:52.7 | CPI gain, it brought the annual increase down to 3%. Shelter makes up more than a third of the |
| 1:59.6 | CPI calculation. Elsewhere, food prices increased |
| 2:03.1 | 0.2% as five of the six major grocery group categories posted gains. Energy fell 1.5% while vehicle |
| 2:11.3 | prices on used cars and trucks fell 1.8% and new vehicles were up 0.1%. Airline fares were up 6.5% while egg prices fell |
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