Why does this have to be framed like an opinion piece though? 82% say? Look at the data. The costs are up for everything, the shrinkflation is also accelerated, and everything is moving to a subscription model where nobody owns anything. ITS NOT AN OPINION IT IS THE REALITY OF LATE STAGE CAPITALISM. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
It is really weird people are talking about the state of the economy as if it’s subjective
There’s no way inflation is 2% when my groceries increased 50% last year.
They stopped factoring food and fuel into the inflation rate calculations.
When? That explains a lot actually.
There are Consumer Price Index (CPI), Producer Price Index (PPI), and Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price index.
There’s headline CPI (everything) vs core CPI (food and fuel excluded) and they had changed which one they were reporting to the media at the start of this admin. They’re not technically lying in this case, more like moving the goalposts.
Yes, well, but the Cybertruck is like $15-20,000 cheaper so it all averages out to 2%.
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This sounds correct. Red states being the biggest welfare queens, I’d say being aligned with people who hate poor people is getting you exactly what you voted for. Sure, dems dislike poor people but at least they’re better at hiding the fact that they want them all dead and instead use the people as institutionalized slave labor.
Fuck, that hurt to type out.
inflation persists
Well yeah, that’s how it works. The percentages spoke of are the rate of increase and inflation is cumulative.
Nah, we can undo inflation by implementing deflation. That worked almost a century ago, didn’t it? /j
Are we going to start polling on things like what the current temperature is outside, too?
I guess this is more about how delusional some wingers are going to be about the most basic of facts.
Are we going to start polling on things like what the current temperature is outside, too?
My stats prof in college actually used to do this, and the average guess was always within half a degree of the true temperature. Still not worth doing given that thermometers exist, but interesting nevertheless.
I would have been an outlier in the data set because I have absolutely no idea what temperature it feels like without checking
wait wait wait, are you telling me that the 6 time bankrupt convict can’t manage a national economy? COLOUR ME SHOCKED!
It’s amazing what tariffs and uncertainty can do to an economy.
Good luck getting Captain Accountability to acknowledge his fuck up.
He’s just gonna double down and incoherently yell “TARIFFS!” into the mic.
You know that famous saying “the buck stops… over there somewhere.”
You can only deny reality for so long, that receipt don’t lie
Before Trump, I sweated buying my first electric guitar in decades. Now my weekly groceries cost more than what I paid for it.
It seems like 18% are making a go of it.
I just saw a clip on MeidasTouch of some Republicunt staring straight into the camera and denying a simple, verifiable fact like what the GDP was under Biden, though, so these people are very good at lying to others as well as themselves.
Don’t forget the reporters behind the camera, who had the real numbers before even asking the question, quietly recording the denial of this reality without challenge.
TBF, the reporter (correspondent?) was telling him that his claims about GDP under Biden were false, and he could look into the numbers and easily verify that fact for himself.
The guy just kept on with his bullshit. Classic Republican, being “strong” and showing “leadership”, as RWAs (Right Wing Authoritarians) interpret those concepts.
This is really the crux of our current problems. The right wing mindset adores people that say things assertively and never apologize, even if they are just completely full of shit.
And 18% can’t do math.
Yeah, which is like, a quarter of all Americans!
Inflation has always been fake, under both republicans and democrats. Hedonic adjustments mean that as your car gets worthless features, like not having door handles, the money supply grows, then food gets more expensive. As people substitute for cheaper food as prices rise the basket then changes, so inflation is hidden as people substitute steak for ground beef; grocery stores then shrinkflate goods so quality also goes down. Housing is almost entirely eradicated from the CPI, they instead ask a boomer who bought their house for a sack of potatoes what they think their rent would theoretically be.
If you measure prices in a commodity like gold, which doesnt grow in supply 8% a year, its far clearer what real inflation is. This is how the stock market can triple every decade while it doesnt seem like we are any more productive, going from iphone 7 to iphone 17 didnt triple the size of our economy.
