Let me Voxplain inflation to you.
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https://www.vox.com/money/2023/11/8/23951098/economy-inflation-prices-job-market-sticker-shock
Screenshot before it's stealth-edited.
The root of what’s going on here can feel obvious: blame inflation, which picked up in mid-2021 and throughout 2022. But that isn’t really the issue anymore, at least not at the current rate, because inflation is coming down. The actual problem here is prices.
They’re not going up nearly as much as they were in, say, the middle of last year, but they’re by and large not declining en masse, either. And in most cases, they won’t get back to where they were in the Before Times.
“Inflation in the US is falling relatively quickly compared to all of our other peer countries, and we have the strongest growth out of the recession,” said Felicia Wong, president and CEO of the Roosevelt Institute, a progressive think tank. “But people don’t just want falling inflation numbers, they actually want deflation.”
Deflation probably isn’t in the cards (and the rub is we don’t want it to be). Higher prices might just be the sort of thing we’ve all got to get used to. The truth is we’re never going back to how things were in 2019 — we won’t be returning to the office at the same levels, we’ll never hear “corona” and only think of beer, and that night on the town is going to cost us more than it did before.
Two things are true in the United States today: The economy is good, and people hate it. Poll after poll shows that many Americans think the economy is in the gutter and that it’s getting worse. That’s even though the labor market is robust, economic growth is strong, and many people say their personal financial situations are just fine. Not to mention that the recession many economists have been predicting for over a year hasn’t materialized. “Why do people say the economy is bad even when it’s good?” is a question dogging economists, journalists, and the White House, which would very much like to convince people otherwise.
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I'm guessing her degree isn't in Economics.
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Holy crap, like, here's the thing you need to understand is that that was shit writing.
Please love yourself.
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Holy crap, like, here's the thing you need to understand is that that was shit writing.
@Aqua-Letifer said in Let me Voxplain inflation to you.:
Holy crap, like, here's the thing you need to understand is that that was shit writing.
The problem isn't the writing, it's the way the words are put together into an article. The writing is great. She sits at a computer, or possibly a cell-phone, and she writes words. The writing is good, and people hate it. Reader after reader think that she can't write, but she can. It just doesn't make any sense. Even though all the words are English words, they give the impression that there's a four-year old mind at work behind them.
"Why do people say the writing is bad even when it's good?" is a question dogging readers, editors and the out-house, which would very much like a new supply of paper to use.
I was only joking
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Nailed it.
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She’s a Columbia grad as well as a hard hitting journalist
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22870250/nft-beanie-baby-price-guide-bubble-princess-value
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I've written some shit in my day but I never had the pleasure of sitting the Beanie Baby desk.
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Do people actually read this stuff?
Does Vox have an editor? You'd kind of assume his job would be to give her a bit of guidance, maybe?
I was only joking
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I wonder where she would have ranked herself on that IQ ranked show?
The Brad
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Do people actually read this stuff?
Does Vox have an editor? You'd kind of assume his job would be to give her a bit of guidance, maybe?
@Doctor-Phibes said in Let me Voxplain inflation to you.:
Do people actually read this stuff?
Does Vox have an editor? You'd kind of assume his job would be to give her a bit of guidance, maybe?
I'm positive that if they do, he happily signed off on the article.
Vox isn't news. It's for telling young millennials and Gen Z what they want to hear. I'm not being snide about that, I'm being literal.
Please love yourself.
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I wonder where she would have ranked herself on that IQ ranked show?
@LuFins-Dad said in Let me Voxplain inflation to you.:
I wonder where she would have ranked herself on that IQ ranked show?
No one in America has more self-importance than 20-something communications majors who work for a "news" outlet in a Big 3 city.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Let me Voxplain inflation to you.:
Holy crap, like, here's the thing you need to understand is that that was shit writing.
The problem isn't the writing, it's the way the words are put together into an article. The writing is great. She sits at a computer, or possibly a cell-phone, and she writes words. The writing is good, and people hate it. Reader after reader think that she can't write, but she can. It just doesn't make any sense. Even though all the words are English words, they give the impression that there's a four-year old mind at work behind them.
"Why do people say the writing is bad even when it's good?" is a question dogging readers, editors and the out-house, which would very much like a new supply of paper to use.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Let me Voxplain inflation to you.:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Let me Voxplain inflation to you.:
Holy crap, like, here's the thing you need to understand is that that was shit writing.
The problem isn't the writing, it's the way the words are put together into an article. The writing is great. She sits at a computer, or possibly a cell-phone, and she writes words. The writing is good, and people hate it. Reader after reader think that she can't write, but she can. It just doesn't make any sense. Even though all the words are English words, they give the impression that there's a four-year old mind at work behind them.
"Why do people say the writing is bad even when it's good?" is a question dogging readers, editors and the out-house, which would very much like a new supply of paper to use.
Nicely done.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Let me Voxplain inflation to you.:
Do people actually read this stuff?
Does Vox have an editor? You'd kind of assume his job would be to give her a bit of guidance, maybe?
I'm positive that if they do, he happily signed off on the article.
Vox isn't news. It's for telling young millennials and Gen Z what they want to hear. I'm not being snide about that, I'm being literal.
@Aqua-Letifer said in Let me Voxplain inflation to you.:
Vox isn't news. It's for telling young millennials and Gen Z what they want to hear. I'm not being snide about that, I'm being literal.
Yeah, no argument on that. This is what you get when you don't actually have to invest in printing and physical distribution in order to publish stuff.
