MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell is joined by Yale Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld to discuss the latest evidence of the successes of Biden's economic policies. Sonnenfeld says Biden is having the strongest positive effect on the economy of any president since FDR.
The calculation has been changed twice in 2 years to paint a better picture and remove some of the things!
Previous inflation rates are often recalculated. The point is that the USA has managed inflation far better than the UK and their Conservative Party, in which inflation peaked at a ridiculous 14% rate.
Can you educate me?
From my perspective the change was specifically to make inflation look lower, do you shop at a grocery store? Are you kidding me?
If you shop at a grocery store in the UK your prices would have increased 14% under Conservative Party rule. Not kidding.
Grocery prices where I live in the US have more than doubled. If the prices didn’t double, then they probably shrunk the portions of food and the size of the packaging. So how do we more than double prices and call that 3% inflation? Housing prices around here have also doubled since the start of COVID.
That’s weird. For everybody else, it was only an annualized 3% increase for the month of June 2023. Guess businesses in your city is screwing people.
It’s like that everywhere. Maybe from 2022 to 2023 it didn’t go up, but it’s still very high. The price of everything needs to go down. Claiming that inflation is low because it hasn’t gone up much more is disingenuous. It’s already high. People are struggling because the price of food, rent, houses, etc have doubled. We need an inflation rate of negative double digits or life is just going to continue to get even harder for everyone.
Inflation peaked at 8.7% in the US and 14% in the UK.
Deflation is actually worse than inflation.