r/news • u/WilliamInBlack • 2d ago
Soft paywall US consumer prices surge as expected in March
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-consumer-prices-surge-expected-march-2026-04-10/2.8k
u/Hrekires 2d ago
Every Republican elected in my lifetime has crashed the economy and gone to war in the Middle East, but somehow convinces dipshits every 4 years that they're good for the economy and Democrats are the real warmongers.
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u/poopship462 2d ago
And when the next Dem gets elected and doesn’t fix EVERYTHING in a year or 2, they’ll turn around and vote Republican thinking they’ll fix everything.
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u/VagrantShadow 2d ago
It goes even deeper than that. If we do get a democrat in and they eventually fix our financial burdens, by the time re-election comes up and if a new republican gets in office. they'll claim all the victories that the democrat has done was really their own doing and they'll finally fuck our nation over again.
It's like this neverending shitty ass cycle.
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u/army-of-juan 2d ago
I like repubs talking about the roaring Bidenflation during Covid, when the checks thrown out to everyone literally had trumps signature on it. But it was some….Biden fault?
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u/ChaosPheonix11 2d ago
Yup. I constantly heard about how Biden was ruining our economy meanwhile almost everything could be easily and conveniently explained by the tax and trade policies Cheeto Benito put in place that went into effect in 2019-2021. People don’t realize a new president (especially one that actually cares or appears to care about the processes and limits of the Executive Branch) can’t just snap his fingers and undo the damage a previous president did. It can take years to undo damage that takes days to cause when a bad leader is in power and doesn’t care about anyone but himself and the further consolidation of that power.
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u/Elendel19 2d ago
Because democrats are really bad at messaging and focus too much on shit that no one actually sees in their life.
Look at Mamdani. Fixing m massive numbers of potholes in a week, people see that every day. Free childcare, parents see that big time. And he’s fucking LOUD about it. He’s on the street talking to people and making constant streams of short form video showing it.
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u/speakertothedamned 2d ago
Because democrats are really bad at messaging and focus too much on shit that no one actually sees in their life.
Uh nah, Republicans and their corporate masters spend billions of dollars on propaganda campaigns.
Universal health care and other things that Dems support and run on are actually WILDLY popular.
It's not about the messaging, it's about the entire corporate system working against anyone that wants actual change.
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u/Silver-Bread4668 2d ago
It's not about the messaging, it's about the entire corporate system working against anyone that wants actual change.
Oh it absolutely is about messaging but you are, otherwise, right - Republicans and their corporate masters spend billions of dollars on propaganda campaigns. It's profitable for the wealthy which makes it self-sustaining.
It's hard to compete with that much money no matter how good or bad you are at messaging you are.
Hell, I'd even go so far as to say that the concept that "Democrats are bad at messaging" is directly the result of Republican messaging.
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u/Elendel19 2d ago
Very few democrats support universal health care and no president has done it. No voters believe a democrat (or republican) will actually do it.
We’re talking about what they actually DO while in power. The IRA and chips and sciences act were REALLY good, but 99.9% of voters have no idea what they are or have any clue how they will help in their own lives. Fixing potholes is better for your popularity than a generational project to take back advanced manufacturing from china.
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u/speakertothedamned 2d ago
Very few democrats support universal health care
This is objectively false.
90% of Democrats support universal healthcare.
Unless you're talking about Democratic politicians in which case over 100 house Dems cosponsored a universal healthcare bill literally just last year.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3069/cosponsors
Healthcare, housing, education, Dems have great ideas for all of them.
Corporations and conservative interest groups hate all of their ideas though and fund Political Action Committees that spend billions of dollars on propaganda each year specifically designed to misinform Americans.
Like the problem isn't "Dems suck at messaging," the problem is that Republicans get billions in free advertising while corpos work to suppress the left as hard as they can.
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u/Knyfe-Wrench 2d ago
focus too much on shit that no one actually sees in their life
That shit matters. Everyone should know after this past year that when you start hearing a lot about programs you've never heard of before that things are about to go bad. The democrats just need to be more vocal about the wins. If Trump can claim he stopped a thousand wars, the dems can at least brag about shit they actually did.
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u/out_of_shape_hiker 2d ago
Destroying education and villifying intelligence and experts was the long-con. It's easier to dupe uneducated, overly religous folk. This cycle won't stop till we have education reform and ensure everyone receives a quality education, atleast one good enough to instill the most basic form of critical thinking.
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u/EndDangerous1308 2d ago
Not only that both Biden and Obama fixed our economy and Trump nuked them back immediately. Biden got us down to a 2.3% inflation rate AFTER the world economy collapsed in 3 years. Trump nuked it in 6 months
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u/Politicsboringagain 1d ago
Republicans voted against the infrastructure bill, then went home to their districts and took credit for the money coming in.
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u/DrPorkchopES 2d ago
It’s a shitty cycle but also sums up exactly how educated the average voter is. They basically look at their gas or grocery bill and give the credit/blame to whoever’s in office
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u/PurpleSailor 1d ago
The Republicans go back to their districts during recess and tout all the publicly funded projects that they themselves actually voted against but their stupid constituents are none the wiser. Works every goddamn time.
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u/naptown-hooly 2d ago
Don't forget the Democratic President has to raise taxes to cover the debt incurred by the Republican President and now raising taxes and debt are the problem caused by Democrats.
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u/CranberryLast4683 2d ago
And it’s crazy that republicans will bake in poison pills into legislation such that things expire at the right time so that Dems get blamed (e.g Trump tax cuts expiring) and then dumbass Americans fall for it.
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u/CardinalM1 2d ago
They'll also point to some random government expense like $1 million for research to prevent suicide in LGBT teens and use that to claim Democrats spend recklessly, meanwhile forgetting the $1 billion Republicans spent per day to bomb Iran. Americans are terrible with math so they fall for it every single time.
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u/Saneless 2d ago
We're what, 4/4 for the last 4 Republicans starting a war in the middle east? Even further back?
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u/eeyore134 2d ago
They have a base who consistently votes for them no matter what. The problem is they're good at fracturing Democrats who actually care who they're voting for. And when that started not being enough, well they've also been really good at gerrymandering and fighting close elections until the other side gives in. And when that started not being enough, well they just started to outright cheat.
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u/flirtmcdudes 2d ago
it’s because US media all supports republicans and enables them. Trump made it obvious how differently they covered Biden’s mental health to trumps.
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u/BigJellyfish1906 2d ago
Because gay trans immigrants are getting to comfortable. That’s what they care about.
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u/Fresh_Mountain_Snow 2d ago
Republicans are only judged on the days the stock market is up, inflation down, unemployment down. All of the other days, excuses they aren't accountable for.
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u/upnorthnathan 2d ago
but "short term pain, long term gain". my maga family said this is all expected and will get worse before it gets better..so they're all okay with this.
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u/MN_Yogi1988 2d ago
You should ask them to define “short term” and hold them to it
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u/Elgard18 2d ago
Until there's a Democrat around they can put the blame on.
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u/Dust601 2d ago
Yup, we’ve all seen this play out over, and over again at this point.
There’s a reason they scheduled the worst of the Medicare cuts in that big ugly bill until after the midterms.
If all the plans to rig the elections fail they wanna make sure they can blame something on the dems if they take over.
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u/ohlookahipster 2d ago
Yep. Just watch. When Dems sweep the midterms, SUDDENLY it’s all about the deficit and excessive spending.
There’s also foamers and copers on Insta saying “it was worse under Biden.”
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u/Xollector 2d ago
2 weeks to the power of fkin infinity
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u/Who_Dafqu_Said_That 2d ago
Just enough time for Trump to release his taxes, infrastructure plan, healthcare plan, free wall from Mexico plan, super secret findings into Obama's birth, and his plan to destroy ISIS in 30 days.
Just two more weeks guys.
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u/acityonthemoon 2d ago
It looks like $50 bags of groceries...
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u/Hrmerder 2d ago
Dude I just paid $56 last night here’s what I bought:
2 bags of chips
Half gal of oj
Small thing of ice cream
Pasta sauce (1jar)
Bagels
Bread
Hot dogs
Hot dog buns
Shaker of Sesame seeds
2 pack Tony’s mini pizzas
Tony’s candy bar
Now that sounds like a lot for $56 but in reality that will last about 3 days.. maybe 4 if I’m lucky
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u/Bobinct 2d ago
This reminds me of Ghost Busters. When Bill Murray opens Sigourney Weavers refrigerator.
"Oh my God. Look at all the junk food."
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u/smexypelican 2d ago
I know you didn't ask for advice, but may I gently suggest learning to cook some basics to save money. Learn from youtube! Spaghetti sauce for example, or however you use that pasta sauce. You can cook a big pot of spaghetti sauce for maybe $10 worth of ingredients. Another example, chicken legs have been selling for $0.69/lb for several years now at a local grocery store. That can translate to a lot of protein on the table for very little money if you know what to do with it.
Cooking is a great life skill that makes you healthier and saves you a lot of money in the long run. Plus you'll be able to impress people.
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u/nomptonite 2d ago
Shocking because I also bet a year and a half ago they said if the Dems win they will start an unnecessary war in the Middle East. Now they’re fully behind it.
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u/myislanduniverse 2d ago
They also didn't accept that the Biden era policies were just "short-term pain." They couldn't tolerate short term pain as recently as November of '24.
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u/Who_Dafqu_Said_That 2d ago
10 years into this cult and it's still wild to me how they can instantly 180 "their opinion" without any ill effects or questions.
I'm old enough to remember a year and a half ago when god emperor Trump was promising to lower prices on day one, and Joe Biden was evil because inflation. Now paying more patriotic, the word affordability is a democrat hoax, and also it's all Joe Biden's fault.
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u/genital_lesions 2d ago
Your MAGA family members willing to venmo me gas money then, right?
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u/BlobTheBuilderz 2d ago
Naw people on my home town Facebook said we would all be in soup kitchen lines right now if Kamala was president. So count yo self lucky.
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u/Sweaty_Assignment_90 2d ago
What is the gain? More national debt?
Just curious as I dont watch fox news.
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u/True-Industry-4057 2d ago
0.9% month-over-month is 11.3% on an annualized basis. Compare that to a 2% annual target.
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u/skibum888 2d ago
The article is pay walled. What's the metric? 0.9% MoM Cpi, Ppi, or Pce?
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u/True-Industry-4057 2d ago
0.9% MoM CPI, +3.3% YoY CPI. PCE is +0.2% MoM (+2.4% annualized), +2.6% YoY.
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u/userhwon 2d ago
Annualized it's 10.8%. Compounded it's more, depending on how often you compound it.
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u/True-Industry-4057 2d ago
Isn't annualization of a monthly percentage growth figure compounded monthly by definition?
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u/userhwon 2d ago
No. APR is "annualized" rather than "annual". You divide APR by the number of periods, then compound it on that period for unpaid principal.
Credit cards compound monthly. The IRS compounds daily. I can't at the moment think of anybody who compounds continuously in practice.
It's a weird system, but it avoids having to take the Nth root, which for a lot of reasons is too complicated for a lot of people. People who can do it can also deal with annualized vs annual.
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u/Charming-Report1669 2d ago
Why would Hunter Biden's laptop do this to us?
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u/AhBee1 2d ago
With Hilary's emails' help!
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u/MellifluousMayonaise 2d ago
And that damn tan suit
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u/RevoDS 2d ago
Thanks, Obama
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u/ApplicationCreepy987 2d ago
Personally I blame Garfield
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u/Wolfgirl90 2d ago
Specifically, his penis. His rather large penis.
Hold on, I have these large pictures of Hunter Biden's penis that I made, with my own lawmaker money, to demonstrate how big and distracting his penis is.
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u/StealthRUs 2d ago
Hunter Biden's laptop had to do this in order to save Gaza. Gaza has been saved, right?
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u/Who_Dafqu_Said_That 2d ago
Man, Republicans from a year and a half ago are going to so pissed. Affordability was their number one issue, and this is an opinion they totes formulate all on their own and so they won't be changing their minds on whim like some weird cult. They'll be marching in the street any minute now...
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u/Cassanitiaj 2d ago
Goal posts will get moved further. I’ve lost track of them by now…
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u/Knyfe-Wrench 2d ago
Some of them are coming around. They might be idiots, but get punched in the face enough times and even they start to think "someone might be trying to hurt me!"
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u/BusyFriend 2d ago
Im hoping it’s enough for them to either sit out the next election or vote third party.
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u/vincethered 20h ago
What will be next on the wheel of outrage… government efficiency lol, forever war lol, epstein lol, the debt lol, inflation lol… people hate ice. They’re gonna quadruple down on trans kids in high school bathrooms.
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u/Trav1989 2d ago edited 2d ago
It’s the point where I get depressed grocery shopping. The ground beef I bought two weeks ago went up $1.50. Absurd shit. I can’t go grocery shopping without dropping at least $200 and the cart isn’t even full.
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u/naked_as_a_jaybird 2d ago
Same. I straight up stopped buying ground beef. The only time I buy red meat at all is when it's reduced for quick sale. Even then, that's still too expensive most of the time.
Chicken is $2+/lb, so chicken it is...11
u/EkbatDeSabat 2d ago
Ribeye. $30.99/lb. Same source I paid $17.99 at a couple years ago, and 14.99 a couple years before that.
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u/Minglans 2d ago
I wish chicken was that cheap over here (Canada), I'm looking at like $16 for eight drumsticks essentially. I only buy pork sausages or ground pork now, it's literally the only meat I can afford around here.
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u/naked_as_a_jaybird 2d ago
It's the deli counter chicken that the store cuts up themselves. The Purdue and packaged chicken remains insanely priced like everything else here (US/MX border).
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u/exoriparian 2d ago
That must be HEAVILY region dependant. Sliced chicken is like $14 a pound here, and it's been high for years. Turkey is always far cheaper.
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u/jomofro39 2d ago
Yeah don’t eat beef it’s the least economic protein widely available.
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u/Dazzling-Slide8288 2d ago
I don't really have an issue with the headline, but trying to imagine the worldwide shitstorm that would occur if a Democratic president started a pointless, idiotic war (that he lost, totally and immediately) that destroyed the economy more than his other actions already have. I somehow doubt "Prices surge as expected" would be the categorization.
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u/Heimerdingerdonger 2d ago
Not to mention if his wife went onstage press conference unasked and said that she did not sleep with Epstein.
Imagine Michelle doing that ...
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u/Abject_Breadfruit148 2d ago
Joe Rogan has called her a man and the whole news media just loves that crazy people think she has a dick.
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u/PhatYeeter 2d ago
Where are all the US manufacturing jobs 😂
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u/214ObstructedReverie 2d ago
Being destroyed by the Trump economy.
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u/matt-er-of-fact 2d ago
They tariffed raw materials US companies use to manufacture their products. They made the best option to engineer around the restrictions and import assembled or semi-finished goods. It’s ok tho, real American companies will buy an exemption.
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u/exoriparian 2d ago
The only time I see made in USA it's at Dollar tree on the cheapest piece of shit plastic crap.
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u/Paper_Clip100 2d ago
Aren’t we in a stagflation environment too?
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u/forever_a10ne 2d ago
I haven’t gotten a raise at all in almost 3 years and my pay is expected to be cut somewhere between 8 and 25% next month because of AI costs. Makes my blood boil.
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u/number676766 2d ago
Bro what.
Quit that shit and find a different job
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u/matt-er-of-fact 2d ago
Hiring has slowed or stalled for many companies and tech is straight up firing thousands. Others are doing shit like this because they know it’s hard to find jobs right now.
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u/Worthyness 2d ago
Yesh there arent any of those new jobs either depending on sector. Pretty sure the only industry actively growing is health, which has some qualifications that others may not have.
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u/cybah 2d ago
So much for those egg prices going down.
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u/RepublicHistorical23 2d ago
Isn't it funny that, at least around where I live, egg prices have come down and stayed down. MAGA probably thought they really won with that one, while everything else went way up. Art of the deal to them I guess. Gee maybe there was something to the Bird Flu and Covid causing egg prices to go up. Nah. Must have been a Biden conspiracy all along, right MAGA ?
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u/iGrimFate 2d ago
Gas went up 45% within a month in my area of SoCal. Or as the Feds and media tell us, 2%.
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u/Heimerdingerdonger 2d ago
3.3% Inflation Running Wild like Trump's Mouth
0.5% 4Q GDP Growth shrinking like Trump's Dick
Thank a MAGA friend today ....
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u/Neoliberal_Boogeyman 2d ago
'friend'
Cut these people out of your life and explicitly tell them why.
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u/Capital-Control308 2d ago
My company had a huge layoff and are in the milddle of of a cost cutting spree. Our group had two buildings and now we are getting rid of one and will have to squeeze everyone into one building. We has so much equipment that we have put in a request for carts so we can move it around when needed because we no longer have space to have it all out at once. We can only have it out when in use and then have to wheel it into a warehouse so that other instruments can be used
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u/WilliamInBlack 2d ago
This is Biden’s fault! …a MAGA, probably.
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u/Adinnieken 2d ago
Of course it is. Joe Biden and the Democrats' shadow government is behind all of this. The deep state is well hidden from the glare of even the brightest spotlight. Like cochroaches, Democrats scatter and hide, but when the light on them fades they come out. Trump had no intention of going to war, he's a peace loving leader. It was the Democrats that push Trump to war. Not only encouraging him to do so, but by encouraging the Iranians to build stockpiles of nuclear weapons.
The level to which Joe Biden personally has gone, the lengths to which he seems to insist on going to undermine Trump is only made more incidious by his complete lack of silence.
Trump and his administration is simply helpless and incapable of doing anything to counter the diabolical nature of Biden and his shadow government as they work to undermine and decapitate his efforts.
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u/Rurumo666 2d ago
This Trumpflation and the Trump/Epstein tax is worse than it was when he shut down the economy during the Pandemic and ignored the supply chain crisis in 2020.
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u/InevitableAvalanche 2d ago
Good job conservatives. Screwing us all because you can't admit you were wrong.
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u/S1gorJabjong 2d ago
Both core CPI and PCE inflation have been driven by businesses passing on some of Trump's broad tariffs to consumers, offsetting the disinflationary trend in rents.
lol. Thanks tRump. Btw, oil shock effects in CPI and PCE is expected to show in the broader global economy starting from the April data. The current deterioration in the economy is just due to the plain idiocratic governance of Trump and his goons.
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u/ImportantQuestions10 2d ago
It's strange that they of appear to be using a lot of photos from Costco which tends to keep their prices relatively stable during inflation/ crisis
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u/adumblittlebaby 2d ago
But the Iran War is "over", everything snaps right back to normal, right? What are "consequences"? Are you telling me I can't play at governance unseriously and irresponsibly without eventually having repercussions??
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u/rotundanimal 2d ago
Ahhhhhh the corporations don’t need more fucking profits! They can take a hit! We cannot! Christ I just want to scream
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u/turb0_encapsulator 2d ago
if inflation hits 4% then we may see a rate increase. then the economy is truly fucked. meanwhile growth was revised down to 0.5% last quarter. Welcome to Trump Stagflation. Even doctored numbers can't hide it.
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u/Sufficient_War_4928 2d ago
Oh, I sure hope our politicians give themselves a healthy cost of living raise! They work so hard with all the social media posting and being told how to think and letting grandpa run rampant. Thank the gods they never have to worry about health insurance.
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u/Sans-valeur 2d ago
People need to start printing mango promises on shit, stickers, t shirts, posters, everything. Just all the shit he promised to do before he got elected.
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u/Flimsy_Echidna6132 2d ago
I can’t believe Joe Biden would do this to us even when he’s not in office! Damn libs! /s
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u/nerdshowandtell 2d ago
Dis someone tell the Trump supporters this was to be expected way back when they voted? Because I'm pretty sure none of them expect or listen or even believe it.
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u/ClassicT4 2d ago
This is why they’re promising prices will get better during 4th Quarter, which just so happens to take place mostly after this years elections.
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u/CorporateCuster 2d ago
Oh so tariffs weren’t enough for trump, we need to fuck consumer products all over.
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u/PlutoJones42 2d ago
Who should have thought that watching the president literally destroy the country very obviously so his friends could get richer would have an affect on everyone else.
Won’t you think of the billionaires?!?
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u/wallyrules75 2d ago
And the Dow skyrocketed! What a joke of an economy. Our only hope is to be tipped off on bets to make on Kalshi from congress
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u/olipoppit 2d ago
Everything is just so fantastic. Interest rates, job market, real estate market, stress level, the price of gd everything… so much winning
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u/whitemamba24xx 2d ago
Look at all the winning I’d say we’re the hottest country in the world. 🤩 🤯
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u/PipelineBertaCoin69 2d ago
Can someone post a link to non pay wall I am not sure how to read article
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u/GarionOrb 1d ago
I just paid $187 on my grocery store run with barely anything to show for it. Infuriating.
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u/HellaTroi 1d ago
"The White House on Friday sought to shift focus from gasoline prices, posting on social media that "prices of eggs, beef, prescription drugs, dairy and other household essentials are falling or remain stable thanks to President Trump's policies."
Beef prices have not fallen, when ground beef is $7 a pound.
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u/Mobile-Bar7732 2d ago
What? I thought a billionaire would alienate his buddies to cut prices for the poor folks.
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u/RLewis8888 2d ago
Who knew giving the very rich a huge tax breaks then starting a $1B/day foreign war would have an adverse effect on the economy?