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For anyone who thinks a couple months of wage inflation beating core inflation means the cost of living crisis is over... You should know that food isn't measured in core inflation and inflation isn't a static thing. You don't get your ability to buy things back because you beat inflation for one month, or even one year. It's a measure of how fast something is growing.
Now time to do the accounts. Core inflation (much less food, housing, and education) has been beating wage inflation for 50 years. Just the recent 2021-2023 period locked in 8 percent more inflation than wage growth. That's accounting for the "miracle" financial news is reporting.
Let's also not forget that inflation is a rate of change. Even at zero, goods and service won't return to their old prices. That'd be a negative rate of inflation, also known as deflation. If you think the Feds fucked the common person when inflation was high, just wait to see what they'd do to stop deflation (seen as far worse than inflation because it hurts those who hold goods and services - aka the rich).
And before someone comes in here shouting that deflation would be the end of us all; Japan has had mild deflation for decades and they're not a post apocalyptic hellscape. Go spread that propaganda somewhere else.