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Inflation hits 20 percent under Biden, pushing small businesses to the brink
The Hill ^ | 05/15/2024 | ALFREDO ORTIZ

Posted on 05/15/2024 8:10:55 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

On Wednesday, the country hit a sad milestone: Inflation under President Biden hit 20 percent. The dollar’s value has plummeted under his watch. The Bureau of Labor Statistics also confirmed that the consumer price index is resurgent and growing faster than average wages. Combined with weak GDP growth, this data shows the U.S. economy is reentering stagflation.

Historic inflation is causing declining living standards and a cost-of-living crisis. Under Biden’s presidency, grocery prices have increased by nearly one-third and gas has risen by 50 percent. It feels like every daily convenience — from a turkey sandwich to some handyman help — has increased by 50 percent or more.

Yet Biden seems entirely out of touch with this reality. In a recent CNN interview, he responded to these inflation numbers by claiming, “They have the money to spend.” In reality, it now costs the average American family $12,000 more to maintain the same living standards as before President Biden took office.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biden; bidenadm; brink; businesses; inflation; smallbusinesses
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Biden has head up diaper and could care less
1 posted on 05/15/2024 8:10:55 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

20% inflation is sooooo much better than “mean tweets”.

Right Democrats?


2 posted on 05/15/2024 8:13:00 AM PDT by Hoboto (I blame Hippies.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Im sure everything will be fine, we won’t run out of money, they will print as much as we need. Buy WheelBarrows.


3 posted on 05/15/2024 8:13:21 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: ChicagoConservative27

From the llowlife, hate-America, leftists, commies, liberals, socialists, progressives, Marxists, fascists, anarchists etc etc etc, at the rag, “The Hill”?
Amazing.


4 posted on 05/15/2024 8:13:49 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Inflation was 90% when I took office!

-Joe


5 posted on 05/15/2024 8:16:07 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: eyeamok

As long as .gov gives everybody printing presses we will be fine.

;-)


6 posted on 05/15/2024 8:16:10 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I am beginning to think the democrats want to scuttle the ship as a tactic to make Trump fail.


7 posted on 05/15/2024 8:16:22 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Internationally known economist John Leguizamo says it’s all Trump’s fault................


8 posted on 05/15/2024 8:19:36 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Woohoo! Paying down the mortgage w/ gusto using ‘cheaper’ $. What’s NOT to love?!


9 posted on 05/15/2024 8:25:28 AM PDT by i_robot73 (One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The author’s data is BS.


10 posted on 05/15/2024 8:27:01 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: eyeamok

“Your banks are safe. Your ATMs are safe. There’s plenty of cash in the financial system and there’s an INFINITE amount of cash at the Federal Reserve.”

President of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve


11 posted on 05/15/2024 8:36:23 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: Carriage Hill

My thoughts exactly! LOL


12 posted on 05/15/2024 8:36:49 AM PDT by existentially_kuffer
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Small business owners and staff should cheer up at a nice lunch together at Red Lobster. Everybody chip in and buy the gallon of gas to get there.
Oh, wait.

So great to be in the era of America turning woke and being fundamentally changed. /S


13 posted on 05/15/2024 8:37:01 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: blackdog

Everything is fine.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1455449578/its-fine-im-fine-everything-is-fine?ref=sold_out_ad-4&pro=1&sts=1&plkey=021ac92c12f2d5f17c1f7d3edf8f008f8c7da172%3A1455449578


14 posted on 05/15/2024 8:38:07 AM PDT by combat_boots
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To: Mariner

Someone posted on Fr a few weeks something similar.
BUT

the writer had looked at inflation in common food items and got a figure closer to 50% since Sleepy/Creepy Joe took office (45%).


15 posted on 05/15/2024 9:00:58 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: Phoenix8

At the very least it’s a mischaracterization of the data and out of context.


16 posted on 05/15/2024 9:05:09 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: frank ballenger
So great to be in the era of America turning woke and being fundamentally changed. /S

It's a service economy and we are being serviced. It's not like the bad old days when we used to make things.

17 posted on 05/15/2024 9:05:54 AM PDT by woodpusher
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To: ChicagoConservative27

BTTT


18 posted on 05/15/2024 9:08:13 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: combat_boots

My wife tells me I’m in Hugh and series trouble if I buy one more T-Shirt with a message.


19 posted on 05/15/2024 9:08:17 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: Hoboto
20% inflation is sooooo much better than “mean tweets”. Right Democrats?

That is a fine example of argumentum falsum dilemma.

20 posted on 05/15/2024 9:08:50 AM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater & Thomas Sowell in 2024)
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