Welcome to the Stay Walthy podcast. I'm your host, Taylor Schulte, and today I'm tackling a few questions from our listeners.

Specifically, I'm answering questions about the two opposing July inflation reports that we saw floating around last week,

using buffer ETFs as retirement investments, and then clearing up

some confusion around the potential social security increases in 2023. We're covering a lot of ground

today, so be sure to check out the links and resources for this episode by going to

you stay wealthy.com forward slash 164.

Okay, our first question comes from Steve W, who immediately emailed me when the July

inflation numbers came out asking about this controversy between the two different reports

that were making headlines. Specifically, he asked what to make of the different reports,

which one was more accurate, and what the July CPI numbers might mean for the longer-term

inflation trend that we've all been closely monitoring. So in case you missed the heated

internet debate after the July CPI report was released. As Steve mentioned, we essentially saw two

opposing statements about inflation and the change in consumer prices. We saw one set of headlines

based on a statement made by President Joe Biden stating that our economy experienced 0% inflation

in the month of July. And then we saw another set of headlines that

said inflation rose by 8.5% in July. Both statements are technically accurate, but in addition

to causing both sides of the political aisle to weigh in with their strong opinions, a lot of

people were left confused about what the most recent inflation report really meant.

So let's dissect this for Steve and anyone else who might be interested here.

Pushing politics aside, because this isn't the podcast for that, avid stay wealthy listeners

who have followed my inflation episodes for a while now know that the inflation rate we are

typically presented with.

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