Nice, you got most of em. The inflation one made my jaw drop too. Like rent and food prices in the US have gone up like 20% every single damn year.
Tankies once again showing they don’t know Basic™ economics. The war on inflation is over. We won, at very little cost.
If not for the existence of Barack “Drone King” Obama, Paul Krugman would be proof positive as to the abject worthlessness of Nobel prizes.
Krugman always makes me think of this one from one of Lenin’s best diss tracks:
The answer is simple: the personal qualities of present-day professors are such that we may find among them even exceptionally stupid people like Tugan. But the social status of professors in bourgeois society is such that only those are allowed to hold such posts who sell science to serve the interests of capital, and agree to utter the most fatuous nonsense, the most unscrupulous drivel and twaddle against the socialists. The bourgeoisie will forgive the professors all this as long as they go on “abolishing” socialism.
My partners dad is this type of liberal and he dropped this take on me during Christmas lmao
Food inflation growth rate has decreased but high food inflation for over a year reduced the purchasing power especially as there wasn’t much growth in wages.
" Food inflation is a fanum tax on the poor" - Someone
Is it still inflation when they’re just jacking the prices up bc they can and no one will stop them?
