Out of curiosity did you forget that the pandemic created transitory inflation for the entire world and that the US has handled it better than everybody?
or that disinflation has been happening for about a year, and real wages are now catching up?
and out of curiosity do you recognize that the balance of those real wages catching up while also supporting a sub 4% economy was predicted by NO ONE, and was supported by Biden policies?
Namely stimulus in the right areas?
And out of curiosity do you realize that paying more at the grocery store realllllly isn’t all that big a deal when you’re flush with cash that keeps coming? Article cited.
And most of all, out of curiosity, does it sit well with you that gas prices are actually NOT that high relative to the past five years? Like, okay, I pay $20 more a week in gas than I did in 2017, but when there’s a 3.5 unemployed rate, huge wage increases for low skilled workers, and fat stacks in the bank, that extra 20 bones doesn’t ACTUALLY mean that much