band-aids, jawboning meat producers, shipping producers it never works. the inflation they create is real. they are now going to have to deal the political consequences. david: very close to double-digit inflation. that eventually is passed on to retailers which is passed on consumers meeting all of our prices are going higher. but the white house is in denial but listen to the what the president said the day the numbers came out on wednesday per the president put a statement saying we are making progress and slowing the rate of price increases. kind of scary when you see denial like that. is not even true. if you strip out some of the more volatile prices in those numbers like for food and energy that actually did increase month on month. he did not even get that right. but look, dan gave the important word, denial. what is really scary as we