Well you say that -
The Consumer Price Index, a measurement of the average change in prices for a commonly purchased basket of goods and services, dropped 0.1% from May, -
......guess we can all move along now, nothing to see here. (and Joe is doing a stellar job)?
......are you kidding me?
"only retail gasoline prices" .......it's almost like you're in your own little world, if you could only add just a glimmer of respectability to this debacle. In reality, you can't clean this up. As "only retail gasoline prices" will effect the yield of many other goods and services, and unfortunately, as you well know, in this case negatively.