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It’s one banana Michael, what could it cost? 6.6% more than it used to? (I assume this is since he took office but it’s not explicitly stated)
Soon a banana might indeed cost $10. The economic numbers don’t look that great.
Bankrupt a casino? How can You bankrupt a casino? He managed to bankrupt, what is basically a scam, and still calls himself a businessman.
He did it 6 times, not 1.
The answer is corruption, skimming from the top, and using company assets as if they were his.
Sounds familiar
I suppose he also made lots of money from his bankruptcies.
Capitalism
Casinos are not “basically a scam” they are literally a scam on paper.
He never said he was a “good” business man.
This data is flawed because it doesn’t take into account the increase in CEO bonuses and payouts. That should be enough to offset inflation for those who are rich enough and therefore actually matter and deserve to exist in peace. For the rest of us, we have to make do with trickle-down happiness.
That’s deep state antifa demoncrats doing it, they control Big Grocery!
Did he lower them on day 1? Because technically maybe he didn’t say he’d keep them low? 😅🤸♂️🤪
Yes, the grocery prices were lower on day one
…than they are today.
Not what I asked, but I gathered that much from the image.
Yeah, I your comment prompted an idea of a weasely way he could still claim his claim wasn’t wrong.
To be fair I expected worse
There’s still time.
Well you’re in luck because we’re in free fall
I like the sound of free!
Sorry, even free costs now.
yeah there’s still time for us to go into deflation
Coffee has become more expensive all around the world though. Because harvests have failed.
Yes, and egg prices were rising rapidly due to disease, not some economic mechanism, yet he still promised to that if he were in office it wouldn’t have happened. So if he is going to promise on things outside of the control of the government, we should hold him to it.
Well he also stopped monitoring for bird flu.
Eggs here in Finland are still cheap.
Also, coffee has remained relatively stable here too.
The big reason for the diseases is how the birds are housed. Most places have a maximum per building that is just a few thousand. The US doesn’t, and often has 10s, if not hundreds, of thousands of birds in one building, which causes disease to spread insanely fast, and creates conditions that breed the diseases in the first place.
So long as he’s rounding up brown people, Trump could shit in the mouths of his supporters and they’d still love him
I just re-upped my coffee beans for home. I knew it was going to be more than expected but was not prepared for just how much more. I don’t go to Starbucks and the like but man those prices must be an insane jump as well.
I honestly think the rising price of coffee is gonna end in violence. People will fight in the aisles to get their fix, I know I’m desperately addicted. I can grow my own cannabis and make my own beer and wine, but coffee only grows far away.
I’m not a fan of this administration and consider myself pretty far left. Having said that, I watch the egg prices from time-to-time because Trump loves to use this line about fixing the egg prices in one week. At the moment, seems like they are down? Could be the USDA is lying; could be the meme refers to CA prices, which are statistical outliers at the moment.
I’d say the chart feels accurate for what I’ve experienced for prices. Energy has spiked so badly around us.
eggs have been pretty stable here the last several months, but they’re still over triple the ‘pre pandemic’ price.
Yeah, the pandemic was a complete shift, and I have 0 faith in the current economic policy. Tariffs won’t yield benefit for the average American and will often cost them more. Isolationism is a terrible policy when our main “products” are financial services, and the average American would never accept the wages of the global south. Even if we had factory infrastructure (which we don’t), the margins don’t make sense. We’ve also got bubbles on bubbles of fictional value (micro loans, housing, AI…). Tech is also imploding for the average worker, so less middle class opportunities.
I feel like my confidence in the American economy is at an all-time-low each day, lower than the last.
I’m not sure I would trust the chart on that page. Not only does it conflict with the numbers lower down on the page, but it says the average price for a dozen eggs is like $3. Looking around online, the cheapest I could find for a dozen eggs (across multiple states) was over $3.
Also, ancedotally, by me eggs have been going back up again from about $5.50 to over $7.
That’s a good observation. How can the highest and lowest prices be between $6 - $11, but the average is $3?
They are lying, I purchased 2 dozen organic, free range eggs for $4.59 this Sunday from Costco in Cali, which translates to $2.30 per dozen of hipster premium eggs.
