After an extended period of gloom, Americans are starting to feel better about inflation and the economy — a trend that could sustain consumer spending, fuel economic growth and potentially a…
  • Maggoty@lemmy.world
    502·
    10 months ago

    I’ll save everyone a click. Pay is up 2.5%. Food is up 20%. Those are not typos. They’re trying to spin this so hard they’re making cotton candy out of it.

    • bean@lemmy.world
      71·
      10 months ago

      But it clearly says everyone is so happy! Our problems are solved! Oh and wages are outpacing the price gouging!… who the fuck writes this shit

    • papertowels@lemmy.one
      21·
      10 months ago

      Some much needed context - the numbers This comment refers to are calculated from since the pandemic - the headline of this article probably refers to the results this year, which are… Less bad. Not quite good, but less bad.

      • Maggoty@lemmy.world
        5·
        10 months ago

        Lol. It’s not like like that inflation went away. It’s baked in. Until wages outpace inflation long enough to eat that lead back up. A good way to visualize it is as a race. Inflation gained a huge lead and wages going faster for one lap isn’t going to close that lead.

        • papertowels@lemmy.one
          5·
          10 months ago

          Right, but the headline isn’t as ridiculous as your original comment makes it out to be. Folks can easily interpret your comment as the article is trying to spin food prices being up 20%, and wages being up 2.5% as a good thing, when it’s not saying that. Things are getting better, but there’s a long way to go.

          • Maggoty@lemmy.world
            3·
            10 months ago

            There’s been a long way to go since the 1970’s. And that’s exactly what they’re trying to spin. They want people to read the headline, feel okay, and then not understand the numbers.

  • DogPeePoo@lemm.ee
    465·
    10 months ago

    Corporate profits are at all time highs. CPI doesn’t include food, gas or energy. Formulas have been modified.

    Fuck Trump, but also— stop lying to the general public regarding inflation, shrinkflation, and greedflation.

    This White House actually tried to gaslight the public about the term Recession by changing the definition. So insulting and embarrassing.

    Again— fuck Trump. He is undoubtedly one of the worst people on the planet.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    247·
    10 months ago

    I still wonder how many idiots will not only vote for donnie (or sit out) because of Gaza, or - just as stupidly - vote for donnie because “Bidenflation” and little d’s supposedly “great policies” I keep hearing he supposedly had.

    • GodlessCommie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      10 months ago

      If genocide isn’t your red line you are not a good person. Had this happened under Trump, liberals would be demanding action instead of demanding a vote for the condoner of those deaths.

      • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        0·
        10 months ago

        Exactly, you’re right; this is exactly why we need to do everything we can to make sure Trump doesn’t win. Really good point.

        Right now, that means voting for Joe Biden.

      • grilledcheesecowboy@kbin.social
        0·
        10 months ago

        There are degree’s of response to genocide. If you think you Trump will have a harsher response towards Israel’s genocide than Biden, then you should definitely vote for Trump or not vote for Biden.

        But make no mistake: not voting for Biden isn’t a condemnation of Biden’s response to the genocide, it’s an endorsement of how you think Trump will respond.

      • BigMacHole@lemm.ee
        01·
        10 months ago

        Biden when people protest at his events: Maybe possibly sometime in the future I should look into this potentially maybe. Trump when people protest at his events: sends in unmarked police officers with military equipment and federal backing to arrest anyone they want for no reason in the city the protesters might be from.

        I like having a President that allows me my Constitutional Freedoms while protesting for change so I can continue bringing the topic up until something happens.