2 minutes ago, Mr Awesome said:

Could you please explain how this proves that the official inflation numbers are incorrect?

Can you please explain how a 45% increase in the oil price -fundamental to everything downstream of it in the US economy - can result in a headline CPI June figure of 3.5%?

The official figures are not just incorrect, they are horse hockey. Anyone with more than two brain cells can see that.

1 minute ago, Lacessit said:

Can you please explain how a 45% increase in the oil price -fundamental to everything downstream of it in the US economy - can result in a headline CPI June figure of 3.5%?

The official figures are not just incorrect, they are horse hockey. Anyone with more than two brain cells can see that.

Could you please provide the calculations that demonstrate the office figures are incorrect?

Just now, Mr Awesome said:

Could you please provide the calculations that demonstrate the office figures are incorrect?

Just another MAGA troll. I have wasted enough of my time with you, goodbye.

On 7/21/2026 at 9:16 PM, Effective altruism said:

You are out of your depth. It's time to return to the children’s table.

You can meet him there when you get out of your high chair.

8 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Just another MAGA troll. I have wasted enough of my time with you, goodbye.

No, the fact is that none of you who claim that inflation is higher than the official number can back up your claims. I thought the left was about evidence, not opinion? I don’t think any of you understand how inflation is calculated or realize that inflation is cumulative. It’s funny that when you are called out, you just take your toys and go home.

On 7/22/2026 at 8:25 PM, Effective altruism said:

Why do you refer to someone as gullible?

Asking questions is one of the first steps towards recovery.... don't lose hope.

16 hours ago, xylophone said:

...and the dumb American public voted him into office, how stupid can they get??

Never underestimate the depths of stupidity of 1/3 of Americans can sink to.

It's a pure Jacques Cousteau voyage to the bottom of the sea. 🤗

15 hours ago, Mr Awesome said:

You create your own reality about inflation and also believe in conspiracy theories.

So says the man who likely hasn't been back to America and Europe and years now and yet is going entirely on what he's reading in the mainstream media. I like you I actually get back there a few times a year and I see how unbelievably profound and tragic inflation levels truly are.

All my life I've noticed that when people who go against the official narrative, they are often accused of being conspiracy theorists, when that is so untrue.

15 hours ago, Mr Awesome said:

Wow, that’s impressive! You must be an economist with a background in data science.

Nope. Just a consumer who spends a lot of time in America and listens to the stories my fellow Americans tell them about the rather spectacular level of rising prices.

5 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Nope. Just a consumer who spends a lot of time in America and listens to the stories my fellow Americans tell them about the rather spectacular level of rising prices.

LOL... definitely not a scientific method of collecting data. If you were a teenager your naivety would be understandable. I presume you're not that young. Squeaky wheels get all the attention. Satisfaction rarely results in commentary.

A quote from The Atlantic article by David Frum interviewing Vincent Smith, director of agricultural policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute and professor emeritus of economics at Montana State University:

But I think what matters here is that food is different than some of the other commodities that we purchase, in that we go to the store every day. So if the price of coffee goes up a little bit, we notice that because we are so regularly at the grocery store. If the price of bread is 20 cents higher this week, I notice that, and I feel the pain in some important way.

The other thing that makes food different and makes us more aware of what's going on with the price of food is that it is an essential. It is something we cannot do without. So especially for lower-income consumers, when the price of food goes up and their incomes do not change-which is very typically the case, whether they're on a fixed income or whether they're in a moderate-income job-you have to buy bread, you have to buy protein, and so on. And so you're aware that the share of your fixed income that goes to food is going up, especially when you're low income.

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.... and be advised.... lowest unemployment rate in what... 50 years! All on Trumps watch and thanks to his outstanding efforts on behalf of all Americans.

On 7/21/2026 at 6:21 PM, Yagoda said:

he still is your boss too haha

On 7/21/2026 at 11:28 AM, CallumWK said:

The pearl clutchers will be here any minute now, as they are currently looking for the keys of their jewellery boxes.

.... the first one just show up

On 7/21/2026 at 6:59 PM, Effective altruism said:

You should wipe the pearl necklace off your face.

On 7/21/2026 at 11:28 AM, CallumWK said:

The pearl clutchers will be here any minute now, as they are currently looking for the keys of their jewellery boxes.

and here is the second one.... would expect a couple more but I could be wrong 😆

22 hours ago, xylophone said:

Well @FolkGuitar the non MAGA cult members know that he is a compulsive liar, but don't want to admit it, and of course there are a few on AN just like that......

So, Donald Trump lied about the money his father gave him, he lied about his bone spurs, he lied about where his father was born, he lied about where Barack Obama was born, he lied to his first wife while sleeping with the second, lied to his second wife while sleeping with his third and lied to his third wife while sleeping with a playmate and porn star.

He lied about his fake university, his fake charity, and his fake net worth, he lied about helping clear rubble at Ground Zero, about his businesses, about his taxes, about the size of his inauguration crowd, about his "perfect" phone calls, about the hush money paid, the sexual abuse he committed, the classified documents he stole, the insurrection he incited and the election he lost.

 

And sure – – he is telling the truth about Epstein, and the dumb American public voted him into office, how stupid can they get??

 

 

you forgot to say ... 2 times they voted for him, that's double stupidity

15 hours ago, BarraMarra said:

Mmmm I wonder who Mr Awesome is this time.

was wondering myself as his writing skills look very familiar and that's "awesome" 😄

54 minutes ago, Mavideol said:

you forgot to say ... 2 times they voted for him, that's double stupidity

Trump also told you all he didn't and had never met Stormy but paye'd her hush money , and he shook Peter Mandlesons hand in the Whitehouse when the friendship with him and Epstein's friendship came to light meetings, Trump said he neve met . Mandleson and had never heard of him.

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On 7/22/2026 at 11:12 AM, johnnybangkok said:

You have been told this many times before but as usual you prefer to live in your own echo chamber,

If you flood a city, any city, with 2,000 national guard troops and a bucket-load of ICE agents, crime comes down. Now who would have thought that eh?

On 7/22/2026 at 8:21 PM, Effective altruism said:

I noticed you didn't challenge the information in the link. Are you supporting crime?

It's quite clear that you're much more interested in promoting your agenda than in discussing the subject at hand. You can start you own topic.... but I doubt it will go anywhere.

3 hours ago, boganJoe said:

.... and be advised.... lowest unemployment rate in what... 50 years! All on Trumps watch and thanks to his outstanding efforts on behalf of all Americans.

Lol! A weekly number!

And one reason being.... that people are leaving the job market! 😂

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART

19 hours ago, Lacessit said:

Just another MAGA troll. I have wasted enough of my time with you, goodbye.

Agree with you and on to my ignore list he goes.

The POS is cooking the books in the most disrespectful way possible.

Accomplishment, WINNING, go hand in hand with Trump. no POTUS can get it done AND ACCOMPLISHED like President Donald J Trump! OUTSTANDING!

Folk your bas is showing ....no credit to Don for

his Univeristy and charity work ?+

On 7/23/2026 at 1:54 PM, Lacessit said:

Just another MAGA troll. I have wasted enough of my time with you, goodbye.

We'll take that as a hard no. If you can't prove the official figures are wrong best wind your neck in. Easier than blurting and emoting then get called out on your bluster😅

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9 hours ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

We'll take that as a hard no. If you can't prove the official figures are wrong best wind your neck in. Easier than blurting and emoting then get called out on your bluster😅

45% inflation in the oil price is a fact. 3.5% official inflation is therefore a lie, put out by a government led by a proven liar.

Logic starts being taught in the fifth grade. It's sad you never got that far.

3 hours ago, Lacessit said:

45% inflation in the oil price is a fact. 3.5% official inflation is therefore a lie, put out by a government led by a proven liar.

Economics

Logic starts being taught in the fifth grade. It's sad you never got that far.

Its OK. Not everyone understands how inflation is measured. From memory it is calculated by measuring the prices of a BASKET OF GOODS not just the oil price.

And btw, didnt you wokies actually want higher fossil fuel prices? To, well you know, save the world?🤣

Trump stated during a 2016 campaign event in Iowa, "The mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?"

He remarked in 2014 that if a person is innocent, they should not remain silent because doing so makes them look "guilty as hell!"

https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-changed-mind-taking-claimed-mob/story?id=88211107

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/18/what-is-the-fifth-amendment-donald-trump-deposition-explainer-plead-the-5th

37 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Its OK. Not everyone understands how inflation is measured. From memory it is calculated by measuring the prices of a BASKET OF GOODS not just the oil price.

And btw, didnt you wokies actually want higher fossil fuel prices? To, well you know, save the world?🤣

Exactly. The inflation figure can be adjusted to whatever one wants, depending on what basket of goods one wants to cherrypick. I can get even lower than 3.5%, if my basket of goods includes buggy whips, top hats and bustles. Perhaps that's next.

I thought it was Trump trying to save the world by opening up the Strait of Hormuz. How's that going for him?

Please continue, your efforts to appear intelligent are most comical.

Trump can't stop winning! 😀

On 7/24/2026 at 11:18 AM, boganJoe said:

lowest unemployment rate in what... 50 years! All on Trumps watch

LOL....January and April of 2023.... rate sank to 3.4%. Trump was watching..... yeah from Mar-a-Lago