US inflation jumped to 3.8% in April

compound interest in reverse

I'm in a sedan and that already hurts enough. Can't believe I'd be on the market for a hybrid at some point in the near future if I can somehow find the money just in the event we don't riot at high prices (legit I wanna go break things anything over 3 bucks is already absurd for the amount of oil we control, but five bucks a gallon is extortionate)

Yep. I just got a cola raise of 3.25%. With the increase of my insurance premiums, and inflation, I’ve actually gotten a paycut

We've definitely felt this over the last year. Early this year, maybe January or February, we got something from our energy company congratulating us on using 10% less energy that month than we did the year before. The bill was one of our most expensive yet. Two weeks ago, we were doing our grocery shopping and the wife said something about how we already have taco shells at home, we could get ground beef for an easy meal on a lazy night. She picks up a pound, sees it's $12, and says nevermind.

'Bro-kenomics. Name definitely tracks..

Project 2025 is a blatant heist of the treasury and as soon as they’ve drained everything America can give them they’ll f*** off to some other country they haven’t enshitified yet

President Dom Mazetti wouldn't have ratfucked the economy to this degree

I needed to run a few outlets in my garage including a 240v for a welder...I called several electricians and they said they could basically start tomorrow. A couple years ago it would have been at least a 4 weekish wait.

Because you’re feeling the cumulative 19-20% price increase since 2021, plus the specific categories you buy (food, insurance, rent) have risen much faster than 3.8% in the last year. The CPI basket gives lower weight to things that have exploded in price, and higher weight to things that have stabilized. It’s also not an accurate measure you have to account for substitution bias not everyone buys the same goods, quality bias doesn’t account for ex: say Honda adds a new modern Apple Music radio and leather seats to base model c**** car the cost of that isn’t factored in yet. Let’s see what else oh yeah new product entrants and outlet bias not everyone shops at the same stores. It’s a very flawed metric.

Yep, the head guy running that show is a Heritage Foundation hack

A roller coaster straight to hell.

Not if you play rollercoaster tycoon, then it can all go down…

IIRC McCain proposed that back during the housing crisis and it was not taken seriously. Someone needs to let Trump know that he's proposing a loser McCain proposal and he'll back off of it probably.

I’ll make the “yikes” sign

Holy shit. I knew he was in this term to stay out of jail and enrich himself as much as possible but it's still a shock he's given up all semblance of pretending to care.

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MAGA could be fertilizer.

> Trump has the opposite of the Midas Touch He has the Meirdas Touch

i learned that he inherited like $400 million dollars from his daddy in the late 70's, 80's and 90s. he could have literally just put 1/4 of that money into an index fund and been a billionaire long ago. but he was so bad, he almost bankrupted casinos. i'm starting to think he didn't actually write that book lol

Yes. His name is Donald Trump.

That's the point. The Peter Thiels of the world think we're a mistake that needs to be ended and cleaned up. Project 2025's main author literally wants to take away arts & entertainment and quality of life for most americans and leave them hard labor factory jobs and their only respite will be breeding. Like, that's not hyperbole, that's what he wrote in his book where he put the real aims of Project 2025 that were so odious that he couldn't put them in that already odious document. Capitalists hate capitalism and would prefer feudalism.

These people that you speak of, ask who they are voting for in the midterms. While Trump is the president and rightfully the focus of everyone’s attention, the GOP in congress are just as guilty. They wrote and voted for the ‘Big Beautiful Bullshit’ and they have stood down on essentially everything else, giving Trump a free pass on everything. If they tell you that they plan to vote for the GOP, they haven’t learned their lesson…

I unfortunately admit that I used to be in the "drain the swarm" camp and was a lifelong Republican. F*** this anti-American party on trying to disenfranchise voters to stack the cards in their favor. I'm voting blue in midterms.

I went to the gun show in rural SC and there were NO red hats or trump bumperstickers. A landmark moment, but too little too late

Not me. I am fighting a losing battle. "Regardless of all that, I am still a republican." - Sister in law "I just can't bring myself to vote for a democrat. I just can't do it." - Father in law "Gas and groceries were way worse under Biden" - Brother in law

"Hey honey, you sure you wouldn't like just some...tap water in these trying times?"

$42 is c**** for that now days. Any alcoholic beverage adds $10 at least too

I was at Jewel here in a suburb of Chicago. For the 24 oz thing of ground shitty ass coffee they wanted $19... Jewel is always a ripoff, but still.

I drove by a gas station on the freeway today and diesel is over $7 a gallon. And this is not in a major city or an area with crazy gas prices. Pretty much in line with the national average. It's about to get a lot more expensive if that keeps up

Yep. And the one in my town is getting built. I had no knowledge of any meetings regarding it because it was all announced on Facebook and I refuse to be on the zuck apps

Is there record of this somewhere? Maybe some kind of files we could review that would reveal more information? /s

I don’t believe this 3.8% shit for a second. It might as well be nearly 100% inflation when the price of a monster or culvers burger goes up 50 cents every month

It’s to protect their identity. Way too many Republicans (read:80-90%) have built their political and often personal identity around supporting Trump. It makes them feel special and part of an in-group. An in-group that shuns anyone that even utters a small disagreement with the president. So they can’t admit fault on him because that’s their identity and they don’t want to feel like they’re out of their pack. It’s so obvious to anyone that has close family that are MAGA. It literally pains them to even speak one piece of criticism on Trump because it directly impacts their personal identity and sense of community.

We just need to keep raising prices until the computers, complicated things you know, hit something called "integer overflow". Nobody knows how complicated the economy is, because a lot of it is done with computers. Darren Mobil, CEO of Exxon Mobil, very smart man, very good with business, tells me that. We just need to stick with it to lower the prices from sleepy Joe. The prices, it'll all just go down to zero, just like magic. We'll be winning so much, you wouldn't even believe. ... Alright, now to go throw up because doing an impression of pudding for brains is still too much for me.

THose prices were higher for different reasons on a macro level. These prices are high for one single reason. Trump attacked Iran.

Gas prices were definitely not higher two years ago

Did you remind them of those checks with Trump's name splashed all over them? Or that the additional $2000 enacted under Biden was literally his idea?

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They weren’t releasing them for months so you’re sadly probably right.

99% of the time they can’t he did probably the ONE action that would raise gas prices it’s just like how dude went bankrupt a bunch (while running a c*****?!) and how he tanked his fortune from his papa. had he just invested he would have been way more wealthy than all his get rich quick schemes that is until he got a second term and more idiots started funneling him crypto money. now all bets are off.