After historic food price roses during a global pandemic and another round of bird flu in four years, you’d think a good president would do things to lower them, not continue to increase them!
I'm sure that somehow this is all Biden's fault though.
And there have always been aspects of using undocumented labor that are negative and exploitative and I'm all for the US government making real positive changes in this area, but any policymaker coming at this from a non-racist perspective that wanted to make real changes would do it by fining or charging the people who are hiring the immigrants.
Of course, that's not what the Trump administration has done or will do.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIUFDSL#
It's due increase in money supply during Covid stimulus spending.
And later "Coffee prices have jumped more than 20% in the last year. And while some of that is due to weather in coffee-growing countries like Brazil and Vietnam, Trump's double-digit import taxes are not helping." if you want to pretend that your boy had nothing to do with it (because global trade wars have nothing to do with rising prices.)
While the question of alternative actions and outcomes is also valid, this is a literal 10-trillion dollar question that nobody in a leadership position wants to ask or answer.
But this is just a submarine anti-Trump piece. Everybody knows that groceries are expensive and why. The idea that annualized inflation rising to 2.9% in October when it was 3.0% in January is a huge failure for Trump is silly when he's actively pursuing policies that are expected to raise prices (tariffs and the deportation of workers that have no rights and are paid trash.)
Trump's failure is that he's simultaneously trying to cut the social safety net because he's a dumb libertarian at heart, surrounded by dumb libertarians, who engineer policy to serve their plutocrat sponsors (who aren't dumb libertarians) whims. They convinced him that he could get rid of the enormous number of illegal aliens to create a wage renaissance without spending a dime, but they aren't easy to get rid of. They're here, and they don't have anywhere else to go because we fucked up their countries. In fact, he's still fucking up their countries because he serves the people he golfs with. Even if you warehouse the illegals, all that's doing is keeping them from feeding themselves, and making them an even larger weight on the citizen economy. He even knows that most of them will have to be made citizens. At least the gate is closed for now.
He needs to put price controls on necessities hard, and start doing stimulus checks so hard that it looks like UBI. His goal is to lower the dollar anyway, print a ton of them and don't give them to the wealthiest people in the country who don't spend (or who "spend" on trash like the metaverse and AI being anything like AGI.) By that, I mean be better than Obama. People will forget that you reigned over the completion of a genocide in the holy land, and remember that you saved the West.
I've bought an $899 MacBook Air. I've bought a $229 65" TV. $20 handheld emulator. A lot of tools and random things from Amazon are still the same price.
But the house I bought was double what the one was in 2018. The car I haven't bought would be up 50%. Insurance costs are way up. Phone bill is the same.
Groceries are way up in general, certain things like meat basically doubled but Yogurt and cheese is still about the same price. Junk food like soda, cookies, and chips are double (thankfully I don't buy much). Potatoes, onions, peppers are still the same price.
At 2% inflation prices increase by 40% every 17 years, and it takes 35 years for them to double. At 3% (closer to real inflation), prices would double every 23 years: 1.03**23 = 1.97...
According to www.usinflationcalculator.com, 500$ would be ~780$ in modern money. Close to the price of the base iPhone 17 and 300+ dollars difference when compared to the smaller of the pro models. So I suppose its price stability is based on the target you pick. If it were me, I'd target against the 1000$ iPhone Air.
1:My personal iPhone 1 never saw an att sim. It was purchased at an apple store.
2:https://techcrunch.com/2008/06/09/3g-iphone-comes-with-2-yea...
I meant a contracted subsidy where the user sticks with att or whatever for $n$ years.
Cars for example, at least in the base trims.
• My 2006 Honda CR-V in the lowest trim level with AWD was $23k, which would be $37k today. That's $3k more than a 2026 lowest trim AWD CR-V costs today at my nearest Honda dealer.
• The last new car I bought before that was a 1989 Honda Civic sedan. Its price in today's dollars comes out about the same as a new 2026 Civic.
Some research suggests my experience is not a fluke. Base trims with comparable features (e.g., AWD) have been about the same in constant dollars for at least 40ish years for most mass market cars.
> nothing you could really call a nuclear war. Just everything else, tangled in the changing climate: droughts, water shortages, crop failures, honeybees gone like they almost were now, collapse of other keystone species, every last alpha predator gone, antibiotics doing even less than they already did, diseases that were never quite the one big pandemic but big enough to be historic events in themselves.
This seems to me unlikely to lead to famine. We'll need to adapt, because farmland is moving, but we'll have a lot more food, not less.
https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-pri...
You are just a victim of that, it's unfortunate because given your comment history it will be really hard for anyone on Earth to pull you out of that deep pit of distrust you fell into.
1. Seed prices - there is a lot of patented GMO stuff in circulation and pricing around that.
2. Farm equipment - bigger equipment, more sensors and computers, higher costs (even around fixing things)
It would be great if there was some investigative reporting that covered all the angles.
The alternative is to keep using the same equipment + manual labor
Been saving more since I found another job
- $375 coffee
- $752 Amazon
- $124 various streaming subscriptions
- $37 apple in-app payments (not mine :) )
- $427 food outside (restaurants etc)
- $472 home depot / lowes
All streaming services New tech devices New family car Last minute travel was on Costco Eating out when we wanted to
just normal stuff bleeding us out without constraint - but could fortunately be reined in
Didn’t commit to fancy house, private schools or in general a long term expensive lifestyle
Edit:
Buying “the best” of things: The best coffee grinder, espresso machine, robot vacuum, sports equipment, stuff
[0] https://www.npr.org/2025/08/15/nx-s1-5500523/when-our-inflat...
It’s just that you can’t track it by the price of oranges week to week
bix6•4mo ago
There’s some fascinating writing on this. It’s really private equity causing the price increases through supply chain control.
OutOfHere•4mo ago
georgemcbay•4mo ago
Shifting things from one scam economy (private equity) to another (cryptocurrency).
OutOfHere•4mo ago
Note that there are just a handful of cryptocurrencies that have seen constant appreciation after adjusting for noise. These are: BTC, ETH, XMR, TRX, PAXG, BNB.