All is fine, folks! Go back to your apathetic lives of enjoyment; we’re doing 2% better than last month and 5% better than when inflation started to hit!
(Just ignore that it’s still extremely high.)
“As of July, 59% of Americans said they lived paycheck to paycheck, down from 61% in June but still higher than a year ago, when the number of adults who felt stretched too thin was 54%.”