In some good news for Vice President Kamala Harris and the economy, annual inflation fell to 2.9% in July — now marking four months of disinflation.

The decline of a tenth of a percentage point in the consumer price index comes as most economists expected that annual inflation would remain at 3%, the same as the month before.

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