JokersUpdates.com: Current Affairs - WH claims 'inflation tamed,' per DoorDash stats. Company says that's not in its report. (Door Dash giving economic data is laughable)

It comes the same week we learned the WH would likely not release key economic reports for October.

The White House posted a blog on its website earlier this week announcing “NEW DATA: Lower Prices, Bigger Paychecks.” The announcement was based entirely on a report from food delivery app DoorDash titled “State of Local Commerce,” and the White House drew some pretty stunning conclusions. “...inflation has been tamed, everyday prices are beginning to drop, and wages are growing,” the post states. Sounds great! But is that what the report actually says? And what does it say about this government that they’re relying on a private company’s data in lieu of actual statistics of its own?

For context, the DoorDash report focuses on three main indicators; the Cheeseburger Index, which measures the average cost of a cheeseburger, soda, and fries; the Breakfast Basics Index, measuring the cost of three eggs, a glass of milk, a bagel, and an avocado; and Everyday Essentials, accounting for the cost of basic household items like toothpaste, diapers and laundry detergent. The White House post cites the Breakfast Basics and Everyday Essentials numbers reported by DoorDash as evidence that Trump has “tamed inflation.”

I reached out to DoorDash on Wednesday to better understand the actual meaning of the report and whether the company agrees with the White House’s interpretation, and I connected with a spokesperson by phone.

“I guess to zoom out a little bit, this report is not about politics, it's about data, right?” the spokesperson said. “We wanted to give people timely and transparent insights to better understand what's happening in their communities…We're really just putting out meaningful trends and not offering up an interpretation of what those trends say one way or the other vis a vis the White House.”

I asked the DoorDash spokesperson if the company would agree with this characterization that inflation has been tamed. He said “that's not something that we wrote in the report.”

There is, of course, such a thing as subtext. So I pressed further, asking if the company feels a responsibility to clarify what this report does say and if “inflation has been tamed” is a conclusion one should take from this report? “The White House can use the language that they are using on that. I'm not gonna speculate on that,” the spokesperson said. “But, you know, we put everything that we feel is relevant in the report.”

It’s notable that DoorDash seems reluctant to wade into politics when the company made the single-largest donation to an Andrew Cuomo Super PAC during his Democratic mayoral primary bid this past spring. Despite donating to Democrats in the past, DoorDash CEO Tony Xu was a vocal supporter of Trump’s budget this past summer. But when it comes to criticizing the White House at this moment, they don’t want to go there.

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/wh-inflation-tamed-doordash-stats-jobs-report