You linked CPI for July which covers 7 out of 12 months. However, pricing data isn’t quite inflation data as that includes housing data which is sampled every 6 months.

Now if you’re happy comparing 12 month CPI averages ending in July then sure 2025’s July was 0.2% lower than 2024’s July. But I’m assuming you’re talking Jan-Dec 2024 which we have vs Jan-Dec 2025 which IMO is to early to call.

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chrisco255 2 days ago | parent [-]

Not only is 7 out of 12 months most of 2025, but a 12 or 13 month rolling average is generally fine to see trends and it's completely arbitrary as to whether you are observing July-June or Jan-Dec. Try looking at the economy from a Chinese or Hebrew calendar perspective. Does it really matter as long as you have a years worth of data including all seasons? No.

	▲	Retric 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		7 out of 12 for CPI is not 7 out of 12 for inflation. Also, 7 out of 12 may be a majority of X but it’s not “most of” X. > Does it really matter as long as you have a years worth of data including all seasons? Using the correct words for something makes a big difference for communication. After jumping through all these hoops we understand what we each mean at this point, but it definitely didn’t need to take this much back and forth.