THE SIGNAL
On Tuesday, President Joe Biden delivered his State of the Union address. Unsurprisingly, he told many lies and untruths, but here are the top five that caught my attention.
1. The Russia-Ukraine conflict is to blame for high inflation.
At the first mention of inflation in the speech, Biden repeated the claim that the conflict between Russia and Ukraine that began in February 2022 initiated our rising inflation rates.
However, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that inflation drastically increased before Russia’s invasion. The consumer price index reached 5 percent in May 2021 and rose to 7.5 percent in January 2022.
Biden also high …
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