The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its March 2025 Inflation report on April 10th, 2025. The report showed that Annual Inflation was down from 2.8% in February to 2.4% in March. Calculated to two digits, it was  2.82% in February and 2.39% in March. Although this month's numbers look very good there is a surprise hidden in the monthly numbers. (See this month's MIP). Inflation Prediction: This is the second month in a row that actual inflation came in slightly below our "extreme low" projection. We had projected an "extreme low" of 2.42% for March, but it came in at 2.39%. Of course, had we been rounding to one digit as the BLS does, it would have been right on the nose of … [Read more...]