Core inflation in February hits 2.8%, higher than expected; spending increases 0.4%

[Callen]

Faux seems to be a bit slow on issuing the talking points this morning…

Still figuring out how to spin Carney's comments last night, the subsequent request by Trump for a call and then Trump's new found respect and civility. All Carney has said so far is to reiterate what he said yesterday....after the election conversations aimed at redefining our relationship with the US both economically and military will be scheduled but there is no way back.

 

[upsideguy]

Still figuring out how to spin Carney's comments, the subsequent request by Trump for a call and then Trump's new found respect and civility. All Carney has said so far is to reiterate what he said yesterday....after the election conversations aimed at redefining our relationship with the US both economically and military will be scheduled but there is no way back.

Who would of thought that we could actually elect a president so bad that he could screw up a solid, long-standing relationship with Canada? That defies imagination as well as speaks to what a wretched incompetent Trump is.....

 

[beefheart]

Still figuring out how to spin Carney's comments last night, the subsequent request by Trump for a call and then Trump's new found respect and civility. All Carney has said so far is to reiterate what he said yesterday....after the election conversations aimed at redefining our relationship with the US both economically and military will be scheduled but there is no way back.

 

[Chomsky]

And everything now is soooooo stupid!

Did you see this?

Here:

(AP) Kansas measles cases double to 23 and new Ohio outbreak sickens 10

Measles doesn’t just materialize in the middle of nowhere. Someone carried it into rural America and, considering where this started, it was probably introduced by an illegal immigrant. You're posting nonsense. Mennonites and other Texans have public interaction. This is an epidemic of the...

debatepolitics.com

I also link an addendum article citing growing hospitalizations for Vitamin A toxicity.

 

[Threegoofs]

Did you see this?

(AP) Kansas measles cases double to 23 and new Ohio outbreak sickens 10

Measles doesn’t just materialize in the middle of nowhere. Someone carried it into rural America and, considering where this started, it was probably introduced by an illegal immigrant. You're posting nonsense. Mennonites and other Texans have public interaction. This is an epidemic of the...

debatepolitics.com

I also link an article citing growing hospitalizations for Vitamin A toxicity.

It’s even worse than that.

Ivermectin becomes accessible without prescription in Arkansas under new state legislation

Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders has officially signed Senate Bill 189 into law, granting approval for the sale and purchase of ivermectin for human use without

katv.com

Just.
So.
Stupid.

 

[Visbek]

I seem to keep saying this about these reports: It's too soon to make a thorough analysis.

Plus, 2.8% is not even remotely a problem. The average inflation between 1991 and 2019 was 2.5%. It wasn't a problem when Biden was in office, thus it isn't a problem now.

That is not to say that everything is peachy, only that the damage Trump is doing is going to take a little time to show up in actual data.

 

[iguanaman]

MAGA seem to have abandoned the economic threads.

Oh well . . . DOW down nearly 600 pts . . . seems to be S.O.P. these days . . .

​

The golden toilet age is here....

Dow sinks more than 700 points. Stocks are on track for their worst quarter since 2023​

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/28/investing/us-stocks-tariff-uncertainty-volatility/index.html

Museum offers gold toilet to Trump instead of Van Gogh's work - report​

New York's Guggenheim museum has turned down a request from President Donald Trump to borrow Van Gogh's work for the White House - instead offering him a gold toilet, media reports say.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42827291

 

[Plasmaball]

Maybe trumps goal was to get rid of Justin all along.?
We all saw how melaina looked at him.

 

[MTAtech]

Crickets from the maga crowd...

Inflation doesn't matter any longer to them. It was just a hammer to bash Biden.

 

[MTAtech]

Worst POTUS since JIMMY CARTER!!

Jimmy Carter was a good president. Inflation during his term was due to the oil embargo and Alan Greenspan jacking up interest rates to double digits.
As an aside, a friend's mother bought 30 year T-bills yielding 13%.

 

[CaughtInThe]

All the dumbass MAGAs down here in the South around me will think this is a good thing because that's the way Fox will spin it.

 

[Phys251]

Dow is down 700 points and falling. How's that econo-me doing, righties?!

 

[MTAtech]

Dow is down 700 points and falling. How's that econo-me doing, righties?!

 

[upsideguy]

Jimmy Carter was a good president. Inflation during his term was due to the oil embargo and Alan Greenspan jacking up interest rates to double digits.
As an aside, a friend's mother bought 30 year T-bills yielding 13%.

Not exactly true .... America struggled with stagflation for about 10 years. Ford and Nixon attempted to fix it with price controls and WIN buttons ,



but it was actually Jimmy Carter, though his fed chairman appointee, Paul Volker, actually solved the stagflation by letting interest rates float up until it broke the back of the stagflation. Of course, Carter got blamed for the problem that he did not create but actually fixed (see Joe Biden, you have company).

An Overview of Economic Stagflation in the 1970s

The American economy experienced staglation during the 1970s. President Jimmy Carter made efforts to combat economic weakness and unemployment.

www.thoughtco.com

Slow But Not Steady: The Fight Against Stagflation in the 1970s

In his latest piece on economic history, Denny Center Student Fellow Ian Stubbs (L'24) considers the 1970s stagflation crisis and it's implications for modern economic policy.

www.law.georgetown.edu

Volcker's Announcement of Anti-Inflation Measures

In October 1979, Fed Chairman Paul Volcker announced new measures by the Federal Open Market Committee aimed at reining in the inflation that had afflicted the US economy for several years.

www.federalreservehistory.org

I agree that Jimmy Carter was one of America's most underrated presidents. He certainly had better character than just about any President I have seen in my lifetime, though I think Obama and GW Bush were both men of strong character.