Economics Thread
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zitothebrave
Connoisseur of Minors
But don't talk about how bulk commodity ground beef now costs what I used to pay for grass fed beef.
zitothebrave
Connoisseur of Minors
I mean I don't anymore. Sometimes I get some good local beef, but never for ground anymore. Occasionally I'll snag some bulk deals. BUt those are rarer. I remember when from a purveyor I could regularly get 10 pound cases of bulk beef for like 35 bucks. Now if I'm lucky to get that same quality for under 60 I'm shocked.
I've stopped largely buying steaks for the same reason. now they're truly a treat and I buy roasts more often.
acesfull86
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Telling people not to believe their lying eyes on affordability, actively pursuing policies that make things more expensive for consumers, offering ridiculous non-solutions (50-yr mortgages), and blaming industries for their greedflation...
...someone remind me which team won last November.
The funniest part to me is that the more extreme example he’s using is in fact probably more justifiable in this case. If China is a threat to our national security, I can see the national security rationale for an import ban. But still allowing as much of their goods to come in as the market will tolerate at the higher rate doesn’t make us safer from China.
I’d also like to point out again that while jobs are wonderful and all, getting foreign capital holders to build here at the expense of jobs in the services, agriculture and other manufacturing not impacted by foreign competition isn’t really doing what they say it’ll do for us as a whole.
Another one to file under “you can’t actually lie forever and get away with it.” It’s actually quite good that we aren’t doing direct money handouts like he keeps suggesting, but I’m not sure what he thinks is going to happen when the money he’s floating doesn’t actually appear.
acesfull86
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A few weeks ago it was $1-2k, now we’re at $2k (“at least!”) while also paying down the debt. He’s flailing.
Or maybe it’s gonna be a big Christmas when this check and the DOGE rebate check both hit at once! I think Trump estimated those would be up to $5,000!!!
Or maybe it’s gonna be a big Christmas when this check and the DOGE rebate check both hit at once! I think Trump estimated those would be up to $5,000!!!
acesfull86
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acesfull86
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Yes
chop2chip
Well-known member
Good luck selling a tariff strategy when inflation is sticky and unemployment is rising.
… especially when the message around the “strategy” is incoherent.
acesfull86
Well-known member
I can’t see myself ever actually attending a protest as a participant, but if there was an issue that would get me into the streets, this might be it