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Don’t you know? Math is racist!

Democrats thought it was a bump in the road, transitional numbers. 🙄

Because it was. Inflation went back to normal before Trump took power.

Of course there was no deflation either. And neither under Trump.

It averaged 5% across Biden’s term.

Of course there was no deflation because that would mean a recession and Trump would be in trouble for that as well if it happened. It’s almost like nothing he does would be good enough for the left… o wait

Have you ever wondered what it would have been without COVID, or perhaps with less hesitant and more effective policies to mitigate it from the onset?

You mean if we didn’t helicopter in tons of money to everyone? Yes. That was stupid.
The “Inflation Reduction Act” was even worse and clearly was not designed to “reduce” inflation because every part of it made inflation worse.

All these big a$$ bailouts were nothing but an incitation to fraud and embezzlement. E.g numbers of SMB owners put relief money meant to preserve employment in their pockets and fired employees anyway.

Because the Green New Deal never passed?

The green old deal, or “steal”, sure passed. That’s why gas and electric have been going up for years!

Drill baby drill!

There is just not enough gold and precious metals/gems to underpin worldwide currencies and the size of modern global economies.

Sure there is. You just peg "X" dollars to a convenient troy ounce number. We know that precious metals offer long-term stability and freedom from the corruption of central banking.

That would artificially jack to price of gold way up. While it sure would make the day, or shouldI say, the xentury, of gold investirs, that would preclude the use of gold for anything else, electronics, jewelry, etc. We can easily see through the ulterior motives of the gold lobby. There is absolutely no other reason for this push.

Inflation can be reigned in by equilibrating the budget, quitting the frivolous spending, be it on hand outs to people or businesses, Israel or Ukraine, pork and earmarks to Congress bills, etc., also by handing over the world policing entirely to the UN, restoring balance, equality and solidarity to the tax system, and prioritizing lowering the debt and free trade with just enough protectionism to avoid trading with foreign entities that leverage slave labor (domestic ones too, btw., which ought to resolve our border issues in the long run.)

Tariffs have not really passed on to the consumer on most products, at least not yet. No, having 5% inflation for the past 4 years is why everything is so expensive.