“August inflation was 1.9%: this is the fourth consecutive month where it is below 2%. Inflation is getting closer to being just a bad memory of the past. End,” he announced Manuel Adorni In his X account. On the platform previously called Twitter, the presidential spokesman referred to the inflationary index last month broadcast by INDEC.
He National Institute of Statistics and Census On Wednesday, the inflation of August 2025 was 1.9 percent. The price increase, so far this year, was 19.5 percent. The same body also published the values of the basic food and total baskets corresponding to the eighth month of the year. He also confirmed that the inflation of last month was of the same level as in July. With this record, the accumulated increase so far this year amounts to 19.5 percent.
Given the news of moderate numbers, the institute led by Lavagna frame It was white jokes and teasing on social networks. “Draw, teacher” or “Picasso” “were the appreciations that the son of the former Minister of Economy Roberto Lavagna He received from Internet users. A signal that has its foundation, taking into account that the price of milk, meat or transport draws a different map than the national government suggests.
The greatest increase was recorded by transport (3.6 percent), driven by fuel rise and the purchase of vehicles. It was followed by alcoholic beverages and tobacco (3.5 percent), with cigarette as the main protagonist, and restaurants and hotels, which climbed strong in the northwest (5.3 percent) and in whose (4.8 percent).
On the other hand, non -alcoholic foods and drinks exceeded the general average, with increases between 2.3 and 2.6 percent, which explains why the consumer feels increasingly affected in daily purchases. An appreciation that several analysts admit that it impacts strongly on social humor.
Lavagna frame Since December 2019, the driving of INDEC, appointed at the beginning of the government of Alberto Fernández and confirmed in the current mandate of Javier Milei, which makes it one of the few technical figures that crossed two opposite political sign administrations. Training economist, his permanence in office was interpreted as an attempt to preserve the technical autonomy of the organism. But, in the face of the political and economic fluctuations of libertarian driving, added the surprising informed indices, many recall the background during the management of Guillermo Moreno In the organism.
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