Affordability 101. Inflation is too many $ chasing too few goods.
Let's flood the market with more government spending and over-regulate our productive businesses, especially the energy producers and data centers.
WHAT COULD GO WRONG?
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A major contributor to inflation is overpopulation ...
There is a finite number of natural resources such as fossil fuels and land, and if there are more and more people chasing a finite amount of natural resources, it's clear that there will be less and less for everyone. The way scarcity is expressed in a free market is through higher prices. Basic economics says that less supply and higher demand leads to higher prices.
Rapid growth has led to uncontrolled urbanization, which has produced overcrowding, destitution, crime, pollution, and political turmoil. Rapid growth has outstripped increases in food production, and population pressure has led to the overuse of arable land and its destruction.
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Don't overlook the obvious...the foolish Netanyahu/Trump War vs Iran caused inflation to rise.
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Speaking of the obvious... it would cost many many times more if the mullahs got a nuke.
Of would prefer that Israel use its own before its very existence would be at stake?
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Level 3
Have you forgotten the totally non-violent achievement of the JCPOA vis-a-vis Nuclear Weapons?
This is ALL on Trump...for whatever reason, he ripped up the agreement and then started this gross expenditure of money...and lives...
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Level 5
No Fairy Tale...and the actual results prove it. How did you manage to miss them?
Attached is some info on HOW the IAEA was able to verify their findings during the JCPOA...
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Level 6
They were well concealed under Iranian mountains.
If nukes weren't the goal... why won't the mullahs agrees to forego their development as their country collapses around them?
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Level 1
...or simply just Demand side Inflation. There are other reasons for inflation but once MAGA voters
get something in their brain they have tunnel vision/thoughts. Another horrible trait Trump has instilled in you all.
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Level 2
Well if the Dems take over, inflation will only be survived by the very rich, while the middle
class gets wiped out. That is fundamental economics.
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Level 3
Weird take since a Dem was in office when covid ravished economies world-wide
When Biden left office it was 2.9%, right?
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Level 4
Data Context, posted without comment.
Recent U.S. Annual Inflation Rates (2016–2026)
Year Annual Inflation Rate (%)
2026 (August YOY) 3.40%
2025 2.68%
2024 2.89%
2023 3.35%
2022 6.45%
2021 7.04%
2020 1.36%
2019 2.29%
2018 1.91%
2017 2.11%
2016 2.07%
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Level 3
Did you read Robinson Crusoe?
Daniel Defoe wrote about the plight of the middle class back in 1703. (published in 1719)
Daniel Defoe’s father characterizes the “middle state” as the best possible condition for human life — a position “not exposed to the miseries and hardships of the mechanic part of mankind” and “not embarrassed with the pride, luxury, ambition, and envy of the upper part of mankind”
The “middle class pays for everyone” message in Robinson Crusoe is the father’s belief that the middle class, by virtue of its balanced position between poverty and wealth, can provide the stability, virtue, and security that benefit society as a whole.
This is the “ideal” social order Defoe presents, even as the story also explores the personal costs of rejecting it.
The novel’s early chapters show Crusoe’s family as part of this middle class, which is presented as the “upper station of low life” — comfortable enough to avoid the drudgery of labor but not so high as to be burdened by ambition or corruption.
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