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LuFins Dad

This is extremely dangerous rhetoric

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

And it costs you about twice as much (per month) to buy a "starter" home.

Jolly

@LuFins-Dad said in Bidenomics:

This is extremely dangerous rhetoric

The Biden speech?

How so?

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

taiwan_girl

But Goerge, companies lay off people all the time, even when the economy is going up.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/01/07/these-25-companies-laid-off-workers-in-2019.aspx

Ford
Disney
Lowes
Tesla (7% of workers)
HBSC (12%)
HP (15%)
etc etc

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

The Harpy from Mass opines.

See, inflation isn't bad, it's just that the products are getting smaller because of the greedy corporations.

Nice "scare-zooms" in the video BTW.

Jolly

She's just following Biden's speech from this week.

Same message.

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

Lemme see if I'm getting this right.

Biden is complaining about inflation?

LuFins Dad

Those greedy and evil ~~Jews~~ merchants!

Mik

There’s no “fooling” going on. It’s an attempt to keep prices down.

Jolly

I don't think a lot of folks are buying the sudden worry about chip bags and ice cream cartons.

Mik

I wouldn’t buy her saying water is wet. She’s the prime example of my theory of two kinds of people. One tells you it’s raining and you just think “oh, it’s raining”. Then there’s the other type who tells you the same thing and you ask yourself why they would want it to be raining.

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

Jolly

Bidenomics, FTW!

taiwan_girl

@George-K How is this calculated?

3M annualized CPI 4%, up from 3.3%
6M annualized CPI 3.7%, up from 3.2%

For example
Jul 23 - 3.2
Aug 23 - 3.7
Sep 23 - 3.7
OCt 23 - 3.2
Nov 23 - 3.1
Dec 23 - 3.4
Jan 24 - 3.1

https://www.statista.com/statistics/273418/unadjusted-monthly-inflation-rate-in-the-us/

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

My insurance went up about 25% from 2022 to 2023.

Doctor Phibes

@George-K said in Bidenomics:

My insurance went up about 25% from 2022 to 2023.

On the positive side, some people who work for insurance companies are doing well!

Or so I've heard. Allegedly.

LuFins Dad

@George-K said in Bidenomics:

My insurance went up about 25% from 2022 to 2023.

Did it go down in 2020 when nobody was driving?

Automobile insurance is one of the weirdest industries. Lucas drives ~3K miles per year in a 2010 Mazda in excellent shape and under 70K miles to this point.

I drive over 25K miles per year and Karla drives over 35K miles per year. Luke’s insurance is more expensive than mine, and only slightly less than Karla’s though her car is valued 5x his…

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

Age and gender might have something to do with it.

LuFins Dad

@George-K said in Bidenomics:

Age and gender might have something to do with it.

Absolutely, but isn’t it weird that Karla and I have never even been asked about mileage? We each drive 2-3 times the distance most adults do, you would think that would impact our insurance rates…

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