If you live in the US and are not wealthy, stock up on rice, beans, lentils, and spices now. As much as you can reasonably afford. You will be glad you did.
this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2025
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Build a garden box or two if you can afford it. Stupid easy to build and they can be fun.
Don't forget mouse traps and other ways of keeping them safe from vermin.
And then later, catching and eating the vermin.
Yes we know MAGAts black is white, up is down and the Orange Turd is a genius. We don’t don’t believe you.
Ignorance is strength, war is peace, freedom is slavery.
France is bacon.
I thought it was Chris P Bacon....
We had a 22 percent increase in domestic investment.
That's good, it really is, but that in and of itself doesn't mean much. Industrial production left the US for a reason. What's changed? The cost of living has only gone up, especially housing, which means the cost of domestic labor is still going to be much higher than many other countries, so how do these US producers plan to turn this new capital investment into a profitable enterprise? How are they going to profitably produce quality goods that Americans can actually afford? Are they only going to make luxury goods for the highest income Americans? If so, who's going to serve the middle and the bottom income levels?
Thing is the article says the actual domestic investment growth was 9.8%, not 22%.
It is precisely like when Russia's currency tanked like a stricken submarine, which meant their PPP-adjusted GDP shot up the rankings and became one of the highest numbers in the world, which all the tankies promptly seized upon and used as an example of why the sanctions are actually helping Russia, by boosting its domestic economy, which is why everything is going great.
Maybe slave labor. Or possibly something that actively steals wealth. Like, buying out mortgages then telling families to triple up in the house to cover less food and higher rent. Basically whatever you can imagine that makes things worse for most of us is probably the plan.
who’s going to serve the middle and the bottom income levels?
And laughter ensued from the 1%
If so, who's going to serve the middle and the bottom income levels?
Certainly not the government!
That's because all bad news is fake news now, everybody deserves the freedom to choose their own truth! /s
For the billionaires planning on buying everything up to finish Russiafying our Oligarchy it's a great thing.
Blyat!
Peter Navarro is a quak
Yeah good news for his boss Putin the rest of the world not so much.
And the sky is orange…
The moment you realize you're getting a golden shower from Trump who didn't drink enough water.
Hmm you should probably head to your basement if you have one if that's the case lolol
I expect that Navarro will be needing to do a "high prices are good news" bit once stockpiled goods in warehouses in the US also run dry.
If Trump thought that this statement would be a political winner, I suspect that he'd be doing it himself, rather than having Navarro doing so. Right now, the only thing that Trump's currently seeing net positives in the polls I've most-recently seen is his immigration policy. Not on the economy.