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[–] Zak 44 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Everyone with a reason or responsibility to inform the public about the economy has not been effective enough.

  • Why are eggs expensive? There has been an ongoing bird flu outbreak for the past four years. Government policy might be able to mitigate the impact some, but the virus does not care who is president.
  • Why is rent expensive? Not enough housing, mostly, with a bit of facilitated collusion thrown in. The president has little to do with the former; if anything, Trump is more likely to tolerate the latter.
  • Why is gas expensive? A president does have a big role here, but it's Putin, not Biden or Trump. It's also not up a whole lot from 5-6 years ago.
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

This. I don’t trust the general population to analyze the economy and decide which plan is better for the country.

It’s like one candidate explaining to toddlers that they need to eat their vegetables for long-term growth, while another one wins because they offer candies today.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer 6 points 1 month ago

Our domestic oil production is higher under Biden than Trump and we're a net exporter. What the fuck else would we do?

Lina Khan, best FTC chair in a generation, was also in the process of cracking down on algorithmic price fixing for rentals and other deceptive practices.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

For the last point about gas, trump will be happy to give ukraine to russia and impiort the cheap russian gas.

He could also pull out of nato and save lot of money that he could then spend on subsidising fatmers.

also cutting funds to agencies like FDA and social programs allow him to move these funds elsewhere

the TLDR trump will probably be able to "improve the economy" but at expense of significantly weakening the country