President Joe Biden spoke of November’s 7.1% inflation rate as a positive thing on Tuesday morning, calling the news “a little bit of breathing room for the holiday season.”

But that figure, which has declined from 9.1% in June, remains many multiples above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target inflation rate and threatens to continue dogging Biden throughout the remainder of his first term in office.
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