"Inflation is down to 4%!"

TarHeelEer

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Today's prices are 17% higher than 2020.

 

Soaring Eagle 74

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Ummm.

Are you really that stupid?
“With Reagan's leadership, the inflation rate dropped to 10.4% in 1981 and then averaged 4.4% for the rest of his two terms. Unemployment followed the inflation rate down, and by 1988 it was about half of what Reagan had inherited.”

Source: Newsweek.

Are YOU that stupid? Guess so.
 

Mntneer

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“With Reagan's leadership, the inflation rate dropped to 10.4% in 1981 and then averaged 4.4% for the rest of his two terms. Unemployment followed the inflation rate down, and by 1988 it was about half of what Reagan had inherited.”

Source: Newsweek.

Are YOU that stupid? Guess so.
You seriously are not going to try and compare the two situations. Reagan took office after Carter and the Democrats ran this country into the ground.
 

Soaring Eagle 74

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You seriously are not going to try and compare the two situations. Reagan took office after Carter and the Democrats ran this country into the ground.
Actually, I am.

1979 energy crisis​

Main article: 1979 energy crisis


Production in top countries by year (million barrels per day)[23]
A crisis emerged in the United States in 1979 during the wake of the Iranian Revolution. Amid massive protests, the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, fled his country in early 1979, allowing the Ayatollah Khomeini to gain control. The protests shattered the Iranian oil sector. While the new regime resumed oil exports, it was inconsistent and at a lower volume, forcing prices to go up. Saudi Arabiaand other OPEC nations, under the presidency of Dr. Mana Alotaiba increased production to offset the decline, and the overall loss in production was about 4 percent.[24] However, a widespread panic resulted, driving the price far higher than would be expected under normal circumstances.

In 1980, following the Iraqi invasion of Iran, oil production in Iran nearly stopped, and Iraq's oil production was severely cut as well.

After 1980, oil prices began a decline as other countries began to fill the production shortfalls from Iran and Iraq.

YEARAVERAGECLOSING PRICEYEAR OPENYEAR HIGH
2023$75.45$80.26$83.13
2022$94.53$76.08$123.70
2021$68.17$47.62$84.65
2020$39.68$61.17$63.27

In both cases, surging oil prices, due to worldwide conditions, initiated inflation.

Have you already forgotten the absolute Covid disaster Trump left to Biden?

“GDP growth under Donald Trump — a measure he frequently touted to show his economic prowess — was actually the worst since Herbert Hoover was president during the Great Depression, Bloomberg reports.”

“President Donald Trump will leave office with 3 million less jobs than when he was inaugurated in 2017, marking the worst presidential job record since the Great Depression.

Despite previous claims that he presided over the "greatest economy in the history of our country," Trump's economic legacy was crippled in the last year of his term because of the coronavirus.

The jobs report released by U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on January 8 shows his employment record will be the worst in modern American history.

Trump increased the national debt by $6.7 Trillion.

So there’s the comparison.
 

dave

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“With Reagan's leadership, the inflation rate dropped to 10.4% in 1981 and then averaged 4.4% for the rest of his two terms. Unemployment followed the inflation rate down, and by 1988 it was about half of what Reagan had inherited.”

Source: Newsweek.

Are YOU that stupid? Guess so.
It is hilarious that you don't even realize how dumb this is.

You are a special kind of stupid. Bless your heart.
 

DvlDog4WVU

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Actually, I am.

1979 energy crisis​

Main article: 1979 energy crisis


Production in top countries by year (million barrels per day)[23]
A crisis emerged in the United States in 1979 during the wake of the Iranian Revolution. Amid massive protests, the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, fled his country in early 1979, allowing the Ayatollah Khomeini to gain control. The protests shattered the Iranian oil sector. While the new regime resumed oil exports, it was inconsistent and at a lower volume, forcing prices to go up. Saudi Arabiaand other OPEC nations, under the presidency of Dr. Mana Alotaiba increased production to offset the decline, and the overall loss in production was about 4 percent.[24] However, a widespread panic resulted, driving the price far higher than would be expected under normal circumstances.

In 1980, following the Iraqi invasion of Iran, oil production in Iran nearly stopped, and Iraq's oil production was severely cut as well.

After 1980, oil prices began a decline as other countries began to fill the production shortfalls from Iran and Iraq.

YEARAVERAGECLOSING PRICEYEAR OPENYEAR HIGH
2023$75.45$80.26$83.13
2022$94.53$76.08$123.70
2021$68.17$47.62$84.65
2020$39.68$61.17$63.27

In both cases, surging oil prices, due to worldwide conditions, initiated inflation.

Have you already forgotten the absolute Covid disaster Trump left to Biden?

“GDP growth under Donald Trump — a measure he frequently touted to show his economic prowess — was actually the worst since Herbert Hoover was president during the Great Depression, Bloomberg reports.”

“President Donald Trump will leave office with 3 million less jobs than when he was inaugurated in 2017, marking the worst presidential job record since the Great Depression.

Despite previous claims that he presided over the "greatest economy in the history of our country," Trump's economic legacy was crippled in the last year of his term because of the coronavirus.

The jobs report released by U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on January 8 shows his employment record will be the worst in modern American history.

Trump increased the national debt by $6.7 Trillion.

So there’s the comparison.
Is it your position that despite reports stating the lockdowns had zero effect in stopping the spread, that the Democratic state leaderships were justified in their policy of prolonged lockdowns? I’d like to get your formal response to that.
 

WVU82_rivals

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When Reagan was president, the US WAS A MANUFACTURING POWERHOUSE...

you can't compare THEN to NOW...

not after sending 50,000,000 jobs to China....
 

cam_blev

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This started over a decade ago and both sides are equally responsible. This isnt a left v right thing...

 

Soaring Eagle 74

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The US is still a manufacturing powerhouse, 2nd in the world by a big margin. You must not realize that US manufacturing output declined sharply under Trump and has been restored under Biden. I know how you love facts.
 
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dave

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The US is still a manufacturing powerhouse, 2nd in the world by a big margin. You must not realize that US manufacturing output declined sharply under COVID and has beenrestored under Biden. I know how you love facts.
You misspelled covid. Moron.
 

30CAT

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You misspelled covid. Moron.
He's just bleating his leaders' narrative without looking and thinking for himself. He also thinks the Pedo administration "created" 13 million jobs. He's just an ignorant bleater. Hopefully one day, he and his fellow bleaters will wake up and smell what they're shoveling.
 

TarHeelEer

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Arrested Dem Governors for willfully destroying their constituent’s lives for political purposes and talking points.

He's supposed to answer with all of the things that have been proven ineffective in stopping/slowing covid. The best answer remains what many of us were saying initially -> Go about your lives, protect the elderly and weak. Yep, we would've lost some people, but we lost just as many, if not more, with the scared tactics of the left and Fauci.
 

WVU82_rivals

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funny...

even with all the backstabbers and neocon moles around him he still accomplished SO MUCH...

that's why the American people want him as president...
 

30CAT

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Interest rate hikes are bringing down inflation, with more hikes to come.

And there are Pedo-Joe and Commie-la Harris trying to take credit for it.

Bleaters believe them.

SMH...