Stagflation.
Inflation will not fall because cooperations are greedy. Whatever profits they make, that can be passed onto to consumers will go to investors and ceos
Inflation going down doesn’t mean prices go down.
Picture yourself trying to catch up with a car going thirty mph, it’s getting away, then they slow to twenty.
That’s a reduction is acceleration, just like a reduction in inflation means prices are still rising, but slower.
This is a post about me at the grocery store.
These people are actively willing George Orwell’s nightmare into being.
The Ministry of Plenty’s forecast had estimated the output of boots for the quarter at one-hundred-and-forty-five million pairs. The actual output was given as sixty-two millions. Winston, however, in rewriting the forecast, marked the figure down to fifty-seven millions, so as to allow for the usual claim that the quota had been overfulfilled. In any case, sixty-two millions was no nearer the truth than fifty-seven millions, or than one-hundred-and-forty-five millions. Very likely no boots had been produced at all. Likelier still, nobody knew how many had been produced, much less cared. All one knew was that every quarter astronomical numbers of boots were produced on paper, while perhaps half the population went barefoot.
Inflation is substituted by price hikes on everything he slapped tariffs on. There’s no difference to the everyday person, prices keep going up.
I was in Costco the other day, and there were a shocking number of people loudly complaining about prices. Usually people in the store will keep it to themselves, or maybe grumble a bit and move on. But they were truly getting worked up.
GOP is really playing it stupidly. The number one way to get violently overthrown is to make it hard for people to put food on their plates.
Nahh, gop knows americans will never protest anything since they gotta be good little boys and girls and go work and not make any noise, no damaging anything nada.
Lets be honest, the closest thing you guys have in regards of protesting or holding anyone powerful accountable are mentally ill shooters.
On everything but an hour’s work, yeah.
Maybe I’ll end up living in a tent, fuck it
And you can afford that tent thanks to paying for it in 12 high interest payments!
/s
10 minutes ago my wife came home with about $400 worth of groceries.
A similar amount of food / paper products literally would have been closer to $250 this time last year.
Wow so you guys are set for the week then?
Yes, but we are a family of five.
And about $150 some years back
Just because the shutdown leads to missing data does not mean nothing bad has happened.
I wonder how the final tally for the Trump “administration” will look like. It will probably take decades to fix what the orange turd and his cronies have broken.
That’s assuming someone else comes to power and actually tries to fix it. Both assumptions are pretty big at this point.
By the time Trump is dead, you will be well past fixing things and into start over territory
We could offer a “new” national anthem for the US: the anthem of the former GDR. “Auferstanden aus Ruinen” (Risen from ruins).
Trump says
Yeah stop right there
And we’ll have a new healthcare plan any day now
Being broke is good for the economy! 🫲🍊🫱
Every week we get a new episode of Nixon’s Watergate and a new W. Bush’s Mission Accomplished like it’s a Netflix series with this Trump administration.
Everything needs to be cut in half.
Double the numbers of billionaires!
He took items from the top shelf and moved them to the middle, see, groceries are going down. Checkmate, libs
About as coherent as “we defeated Medicare!”
