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Taliban is not crossing an open US border and setting up shop in the US. MS-13 is.

There's some Talibanies in there too along with military aged Chinese. It's a diverse group.

Maybe we'll hear from them later.

In 2019 we didn’t have wide open borders with mass amounts of middle easterners crossing did we?

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Y'all is ignoring inflation. The new catchphrase is "corporate greed". When inflation gets back down to 2% y'all will start calling it inflation again.

Both Parties are ignoring inflation. Republicans blame it on Democrats without doing anything about it. Democrats don't think it is a problem.

"But it's not okay to say they're doing nothing"

I would rather they do nothing. It's politicians doing things that usually fcuk things up.

Whenever the government names a bill the end result is the exact opposite of what it was meant to do.

Inflation coming down is good. But that's on top of Biden's already massive inflation due to his Inflation Production Act, American Rescue Plan Act, etc., etc. The spending doesn't stop with Harris and Biden.

3% inflation on top of goods and services that have gone up say... oh, let's pick a nice, realistic number like 1.4%, is not that bad. But 3% on top of a Biden inflation rate of 12% or whatever obscene number he dumped on us, is pretty bad.

That's just math, yolo. Try it for yourself! Use an item costing $100 as a starting point for the two types of inflation; Trump-style and Biden-style, and let everyone know how those numbers look after 3.5+ years of Biden running the economy into the ditch.

So you can warble on about how great you think Demented Joe Bribe'em is doing with inflation, but the numbers do not agree with you, and the people know it because they can't buy as much as they could when Trump was POTUS.

YOU may be better off than you were four years ago due to the wizardry of your portfolio, but the hard working folks in the middle class are not, and it's because of Biden's inflation.

They know it every time they sit down at the kitchen table to budget. Assuming they budget instead of just spending money they don't have like the federal govt does.

Remember the current purported 3 percent is on top of the previous numbers. So the current claimed 3% is more like 15% above 2021. Anyone who buys things know it’s at least that.

No they are gaslighting the solution. Claiming you’re going to force greedy corporations to charge less is insincere and stupid. That why there has been little progress. Wrong driver, wrong solution.

Of course as we near the election the reported number will show improvement. Gas prices will even go down, but it’s only “transitory”, unlike inflation.

I’m not the one that lied and said the inflation was transitory. Only fools believed that drivel. Inflation parameters are adjusted and weighted every year so it is not beyond the pale that they be manipulated by weighting certain comparisons. Although I do agree there isn’t a basis for discussion with someone who thinks numbers can’t be manipulated and haven’t been.

Oh, I figured from your previous response that you know it was sarcasm.
Then I continued to play upon that.

The statistics student thing threw me off the scent. Wasn't 100% sure.

The statistical formulas used to calculate inflation on an annual basis are adjusted and even switched in order to fool the believers. Any Statistics student knows this.

What is the statistical formula to determine if that is sarcasm or not?
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They might swap similar items in the basket used to calculate CPI (as they have for 25 years now) but I haven't seen evidence that it has been done in such a way as to intentionally falsely portray inflation "in an election year".

If economists or anyone had evidence of that^, I would tend to think Fox news would have 24 hour back to back news coverage that Biden is faking the inflation numbers. Maybe I don't watch enough news idk.

Normally the statistical formula would be an added "lol" at the end of the statement in order to determine sarcasm or whatever other sort of humor may have been involved for those who require laugh tracks when watching sitcoms.

It's ironic that those claiming the construing of data for propaganda purposes by 'them guys' are blatantly given to the tendency to cherry pick said data as suited to the narrative they're trying to push.

Fair enough.

I just wasn't sure which formulas you were saying were switched (and I never took statistics).

re: chart you posted below:

I was wondering about 2020, as I keep hearing now how inflation was still low but not from what I recall back then from food shopping as well as paper towels and whatnot. Seems the only reason they didn't go even higher than they did was because stuff simply ran out.

I remember some products (if you could even find them) skyrocketed. Hand sanitizer specifically was cuckoo. I remember I read a story about some guy who early on traveled to a bunch of dollar trees and such buying hand sanitizer early on and then later into the pandemic when there was none, he was reselling it crazy inflated on Amazon. I think he eventually got shut down though.

“numbers are based on grocery prices and appear to be transitory but I guess you don't believe them anyway so eh...

Also it looks like food inflation began increasing in 2020.. during the Trump presidency.... (all because Joe Biden no doubt.) 🙄”

That chart appears to be reflective of all groceries. Staple items are much higher but you can spread it out among jello and cupcake mix to water down the real effect and inflation of meat, eggs, etc.

I will still take the 4 Trump years over the 4 Biden years by a mile. Your chart just proves the point. Bidenomics is inflationary.

" you can spread it out among jello and cupcake mix to water down the real effect and inflation of meat, eggs, etc."

I just looked for a chart of food inflation (when people say "groceries" I assume they basically mean food) and that's what I found.

Inflation isn’t transitory if it still above normal regardless of being less than the rates it was at. Especially when those rates were high.Once again a check of grocery prices reveals some reality in inflation specifically rather than generalized.

These numbers are based on grocery prices and appear to be transitory but I guess you don't believe them anyway so eh...

Also it looks like food inflation began increasing in 2020.. during the Trump presidency.... (all because Joe Biden no doubt.) 🙄

Grocery prices have jumped by 25 percent over the past four years, outpacing overall inflation of 19 percent during the same period.