They were wrong. Again. And not by a little.
The June Consumer Price Index report landed Monday morning like a depth charge under every doomsday prediction the left and the financial press have been peddling for months. Consumer prices fell 0.4% from May — the biggest single-month drop in over six years, four times larger than what every Bloomberg economist surveyed had forecast. Annual inflation came in at 3.5%, well below the 3.8% experts predicted and down sharply from May’s 4.2%.
Core CPI — the measure that strips out food and energy and is watched most closely by the Federal Reserve — came in at 2.6% year over year. Analysts expected 2.8%. It registered zero month over month. As in nothing. Flat. The smallest possible number.
Stock market futures surged the moment the report hit. Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo called it an excellent number. The White House’s Rapid Response team was justified in pointing out that this is four times more negative than what the experts forecast. Because it is.
BREAKING: Inflation posting the biggest one-month drop since April 2020.
New June CPI data shows prices fell 0.4% from the previous month — the biggest monthly decline since April 2020 — bringing the annual inflation rate to 3.5% as price pressures continue to ease.
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— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 14, 2026
Let’s be direct about what drove this. Gasoline prices fell nearly 9% in June — a direct consequence of the administration’s energy policy, the collapse in Iranian oil leverage following Operation Epic Fury, and a domestic energy sector that has been told in no uncertain terms that production is welcome again. When you stop treating American energy like a problem to be regulated out of existence and start treating it like the strategic asset it actually is, prices respond. This is not complicated. It is cause and effect.
Breaking: Inflation slowed to 3.5% in June as gasoline prices fell https://t.co/AqPo0IhWMr
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) July 14, 2026
The timing is worth noting. Fed Chair Kevin Warsh heads to Capitol Hill today for Congressional testimony — his first since taking over from Jerome Powell. He is walking into that testimony with the best inflation number in years sitting on the table in front of him. The pressure to begin cutting interest rates, which have held American borrowers hostage for two years while the Fed tried to clean up the Biden administration’s inflationary catastrophe, just got considerably stronger.
The left spent months predicting that Trump’s tariff policy would trigger an inflationary spiral that would devastate working Americans. The Wall Street Journal editorial board fretted. The economists warned. The media ran breathless segments about grocery prices and consumer confidence. The CPI report this morning is the data’s verdict on all of it: annual inflation has fallen nearly a full percentage point in a single month, beating every expert prediction by a margin that is impossible to wave away.
Biden’s inflation peaked at 9.1%. Trump inherited that mess, inherited the high interest rates that followed, and is now delivering the fastest sustained inflation decline in recent memory — while the same experts who missed this number by 300% are still being quoted as authoritative voices on economic policy.
The numbers don’t lie. The experts do. And the Trump economy keeps winning.
