More than half of Harris voters want to relocate following Trump win, survey finds

You had it figured out all along.
How did we not see this coming?

 

Biden's spending cannot explain global inflation, which during the time had around the same mean as US inflation, 9%, and a higher median. As much as some may want to isolate the US from the world, you simply cannot when we do trillions of trade a year.

Back to the OP. We booked a long weekend in Victoria, BC over spring break, and are considering changing summer plans to visit Amsterdam. Scoping out places to move. My wife works in the private sector, but her job deals with FDA regulations, specifically the F part. FDA completely deregulates, my wife's job is in jeopardy.

 

And that’s why you lost, right there!

 

That one’s easy. Biden and the US Democrats weren’t the only fools who thought that printing money would drive inflation.

 

We lost because you don't understand how inflation works? Ironically there's some truth to that.

 

Right, I don’t understand. Keep telling yourself that one.

 

Don't worry, as long as you keep posting that inflation wasn't transitory because prices didn't go back down to pre-inflation levels, I'll be telling myself (and everyone else here) that you don't understand.

 

This link shows COVID response spending by country. Plenty of countries that didn't spend anywhere near what the US did, but still suffered inflation as high, if not significantly higher than the US.

Explain that, please. Because spending alone doesn't correlate to the global inflation.

 

Food inflation caught people off guard including economists*, I really don’t think that is what anyone thought of as “transitory”, transitory to me means much higher than normal inflation caused by a temporary condition (chip shortage, avian flu causing egg spike, lumber and building material shortages, etc). Once the temporary condition resolves, prices should sort of go back down. That is unless sellers learn they can get away with the higher price!

*I do remember economists being worried about tanker truckers, and truckers in general since numbers of them died or retired post covid. Saw articles warning about gas shortages and inflation as the economy re-opened. This wouldn’t have been transitory because it was a new structural condition. The gas shortages never played out, but tight labor did leave low inventories on some products which leads to (you guessed it) inflation. I think a bunch of big food played “follow the leader” and raised prices because they could. Kind of stupid to blame govt for that. It’s fair to say economists underestimated or missed its impact on groceries, it’s still more about the “burrito index” than actual food commodity prices imo.

 

You still don’t get it.

Using a “college degree” to define a population set and extrapolate intelligence is exactly what the polls and articles are trying to do. They attempt to suggest only the stupid vote for Trump, yet they seem to ignore large swaths of voters who typically vote for Dems every election who aren’t “college degree” voters.

 

You ignore the rest of the world spent like sailors too…

 

Almost like there’s no such thing as a “consequence free” pandemic.