the shitty economy is probably working very well to keep prices from going a lot higher, but look again at the numbers I attached, not yr motivated guesstimate (which is what is showing "negligible" difference - the actual CPI is not negligible, and this yrs looks to be higher)
again:

these 2024-2025 differences (and we are two months from the end of the year, no annual can be fully calculated for 2025) are very small/within the margin of error. Yr source seems very certain, for some reason, which IME is a red flag for economics. Look at the actual CPI numbers as here (again):

do they though?

Broken out by gender, it's white men, specifically. <shockedpikachu>

man even Kash there saying "what the hell, man"

I like the Penguin Tea Party better