US inflation unexpectedly increases

Unexpectedly?

Unexpectedly? By who?

Pretty sure tons of people said that if Trump takes office, inflation would skyrocket thanks to the tarrifs and all his other bullshit... This was entirely expected. It's the result we all knew was coming if he took office.

If it were any Democrat in office right now, the media would have been pinning the blame harder than fighting games got blamed for violence in the 90s. Getting real sick of the narrative they're spinning.

Republicans just took power.

Not unexpected at all.

We hired one of the worst people in the world to lead us. It's a stretch to call this unexpected.

What's unexpected about it? We re-elected a twice impeached anti-democratic felon rapist who utterly failed his last term.

Every American who could rub brain cells together warned this would happen.

Unfortunately, those people represent a minority in The Divided States of Dumbfuckistan.

That article is carrying a lot of water for the Trump administration. Nobody knows why prices are going up!

Unexpectedly?

!leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world

Good job on voting to cancel out Joe Biden’s monopoly breakup because he didn’t do it fast enough

“Unexpectedly”

If it’s anything to me, it’s unexpectedly low.

Shocked pikachu face

who ever wrote this article is a total moron. Unexpectedly? noo.

Unexpectedly by who!?

I fucking love how there is basically only one comment on this entire post

"Unexpectedly"? Everyone but the MAGA idiots expected it.

Wait. Unexpectedly for who? I certainly expected it. Most people I've talked with are also not surprised.

The only thing unexpected here is the bad headline. Simply using the first sentence would be more accurate and meaningful

Then those interviewed and writing this article are idiots. 2024 article.

Yet most mainstream economists say Trump’s policy proposals wouldn’t vanquish inflation. They’d make it worse. They warn that his plans to impose huge tariffs on imported goods, deport millions of migrant workers and demand a voice in the Federal Reserve’s interest rate policies would likely send prices surging.

Sixteen Nobel Prize-winning economists signed a letter in June expressing fear that Trump’s proposals would “reignite’’ inflation, which has plummeted since peaking at 9.1% in 2022 and is nearly back to the Fed’s 2% target.

The Nobel economists noted that they aren’t alone in sounding the alarm.

link.

Thank President Musk and his First Lad Trump.

Before reacting, read the article

Inflation rose to 3% in January, its highest rate for six months, and above the 2.9% expected by economists.

This is significant for bankers, but not for regular people. You're not going to notice that inflation is 0.1% higher than expected

Who could have expected this

Maaaybe tarrifs are not that great

"unexpectedly" is a word they use but I am not sure they know what it means.

That's unfortunate, BBC misspelled "predictably."

I expected this ages ago, I must have superpowers or something

unexpectedly

From the BBC? Wow!

I can mentally hear exactly why the inflation is rising in the voice of good ol' dear David Attenborough.

So, tarrifs have impact after all?

When will we start seeing stickers at gas pumps and at grocery's saying "Trump did this".

How about flags saying "Let's Go Eric" as an answer to all the let's go Brandon flags

Where’s that sliced cheese 1ady when you need her?

Just snuck up on everyone without warning! 🫣

"unexpected"

Unexpectedly?????? WT actual F??????

Unexpectedly? LMAO

Trump's fine with that as far as his gold reserves are going to skyrocket in value. That's maybe one of the reasons why he wants these tariffs so bad in the first place.

(Get precious metals asap, btw.)