Your "source" is an editorializing HN submitter who took a one-month increase in prices while the military action with Iran and subsequent oil price shock and multiplied by 12.
The BLS (and any economist) knows better than to do that, so you cited the online equivalent of "a dude wearing sunglasses on the back of his hat being interviewed in his pickup truck..."
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Your "source" is an editorializing HN submitter who took a one-month increase in prices while the military action with Iran and subsequent oil price shock and multiplied by 12.
The BLS (and any economist) knows better than to do that, so you cited the online equivalent of "a dude wearing sunglasses on the back of his hat being interviewed in his pickup truck..."