Elena @ Four Seasons

[RichardAlem]

do you live in the USA? I am here now. Its a mess. Inflation is running way above that fake figure. everything is more expensive, and is getting higher.
Believe what you want.
I live half and half BA and USA, and the USA is changing faster, and worse.

Donald Trump has been in office 206 days.

Joe Biden was the putative president for the four years preceding Trump.

Inflation is caused by excessive dollar issuance.

If the recent 2.7% CPI annualized inflation numbers are fake (probably) as you claim, they were produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics whose commissioner, Ms. Erika McEntarfer, was hired by President Joe Biden in July 2023. President Trump recently fired Ms. McEntarfer for producing false data and he replaced her with Mr. E.J. Antoni; who is brilliant and who will report the true statistics which impact retirees on Social Security.

Thanks in large part to Erika McEntarfer's (again, hired by Joe Biden) specious inflation data, the likely 2026 Social Security COLA will be a measly 2.6% and for which you should thank Joe Biden; not Donald Trump. It's not complicated.

 

[QuilmesSlo]

I was in a mid range restaurant, certainly not fancy fancy, or dedicated to rich people, in the Lower East Side of NYC this week, and their steak was $97. This is not by any means an "expensive" restaurant in NYC.
BA is certainly getting ridiculously expensive, but the US started higher, and Trumponomics are keeping it well above Argentina.
McDonalds in Nyc is more than in BA. A slice of pizza is thinner and less of everything, (except peperoni) and still more than BA. Average slice to go is 4$ to 8$. The Hipster places can be ten bucks. for a slice.
Years ago, pre-covid, I used to gladly pay $40 or more for a one kilo steak at Proper, on Araoz, although we would split it 4 ways and get 6 starters too.
There have always been expensive restaurants in BA, only now, they are much more expensive.
I lament that Franca couldnt make it- it was excellent, and in the same price range you are talking about, but with a very interesting and unusual menu, and every single thing I tried there in my 3 or so visits was incredible.

I was in Colombia in July. Can get a great restaurant steak for 12 bucks US.

 

[Caribbean Cool]

This is an interesting site to compare world food prices....

Prices of goods and services | GlobalProductPrices.com

Compare and track the retail prices of a wide range of goods and services as well as major brands around the world.

www.globalproductprices.com

 

[Stevied]

That steak looks fabulous. I live in NYC - a dry aged tomahawk - 35 oz - in NYC will cost you close to $200 at any good steakhouse.

 

[Ries]

Donald Trump has been in office 206 days.

Joe Biden was the putative president for the four years preceding Trump.

Inflation is caused by excessive dollar issuance.

If the recent 2.7% CPI annualized inflation numbers are fake (probably) as you claim, they were produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics whose commissioner, Ms. Erika McEntarfer, was hired by President Joe Biden in July 2023. President Trump recently fired Ms. McEntarfer for producing false data and he replaced her with Mr. E.J. Antoni; who is brilliant and who will report the true statistics which impact retirees on Social Security.

Thanks in large part to Erika McEntarfer's (again, hired by Joe Biden) specious inflation data, the likely 2026 Social Security COLA will be a measly 2.6% and for which you should thank Joe Biden; not Donald Trump. It's not complicated.

I take it from you quoting MAGA talking points that you do NOT live in the USA today.
Who you gonna believe- Trump, or your own lying eyes?

Almost everything I buy is more expensive that before Trump was elected.
And shortages are starting to occur as well.
I could quote more actual examples than you want to read.

But I think the real question, both for Milei and Trump, is what, exactly is Better?
Because everything, from inflation, to unemployment, to homelessness, to government efficiency, to health care, education, infrastructure, is worse.
More expensive, harder, less options, slower.
That has been my experience in both countries in the last year.

I see no improvements in prices, jobs, taxes (My ABL is UP).
I see stores closing in both places.
I see everyone I know worried about the economy, every freelancer getting less jobs, I know people laid off or fired from jobs, both government and private, in both countries.

I see zero postives.

 

[Ries]

Donald Trump has been in office 206 days.

Joe Biden was the putative president for the four years preceding Trump.

Inflation is caused by excessive dollar issuance.

If the recent 2.7% CPI annualized inflation numbers are fake (probably) as you claim, they were produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics whose commissioner, Ms. Erika McEntarfer, was hired by President Joe Biden in July 2023. President Trump recently fired Ms. McEntarfer for producing false data and he replaced her with Mr. E.J. Antoni; who is brilliant and who will report the true statistics which impact retirees on Social Security.

Thanks in large part to Erika McEntarfer's (again, hired by Joe Biden) specious inflation data, the likely 2026 Social Security COLA will be a measly 2.6% and for which you should thank Joe Biden; not Donald Trump. It's not complicated.

Walmart prices up, mysteriously, more than 2.7%

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cnbc-analysis-shows-walmart-prices-220002692.html

A wide variety of new sources report Amazon prices for many essentials, not expensive luxuries, up at least 5% since inauguration. Thats 10% annualized.

 

[Ruta Otto]

Donald Trump has been in office 206 days.

Joe Biden was the putative president for the four years preceding Trump.

Inflation is caused by excessive dollar issuance.

If the recent 2.7% CPI annualized inflation numbers are fake (probably) as you claim, they were produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics whose commissioner, Ms. Erika McEntarfer, was hired by President Joe Biden in July 2023. President Trump recently fired Ms. McEntarfer for producing false data and he replaced her with Mr. E.J. Antoni; who is brilliant and who will report the true statistics which impact retirees on Social Security.

Thanks in large part to Erika McEntarfer's (again, hired by Joe Biden) specious inflation data, the likely 2026 Social Security COLA will be a measly 2.6% and for which you should thank Joe Biden; not Donald Trump. It's not complicated.

The increase in prices is due to the uncertainty of tariffs and the disappearance of most of the farm labor force, not due to the money supply. But now that Fearless Leader has his own personal Project 2025 economists, you should see the official numbers decrease, much to the delight of fascist bootlickers everywhere. Real world numbers will beg to differ, but no one will say anything for fear of being sent to gulag.

 

[wineguy999]

Donald Trump has been in office 206 days.

Joe Biden was the putative president for the four years preceding Trump.

Inflation is caused by excessive dollar issuance.

If the recent 2.7% CPI annualized inflation numbers are fake (probably) as you claim, they were produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics whose commissioner, Ms. Erika McEntarfer, was hired by President Joe Biden in July 2023. President Trump recently fired Ms. McEntarfer for producing false data and he replaced her with Mr. E.J. Antoni; who is brilliant and who will report the true statistics which impact retirees on Social Security.

Thanks in large part to Erika McEntarfer's (again, hired by Joe Biden) specious inflation data, the likely 2026 Social Security COLA will be a measly 2.6% and for which you should thank Joe Biden; not Donald Trump. It's not complicated.

Please post certificate for your claim of "specious" inflation data. Let us all in your source.

 

[RichardAlem]

Please post certificate for your claim of "specious" inflation data. Let us all in your source.

Here you go chief, one of many: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/09/economy/cpi-revisions-inflation

The salient part being: “We have to make decisions in real time,” Fed Governor Christopher Waller said late last year. “Whatever data is released, that’s the data I have to use. The problem with data is it gets revised.”

Facts getting in the way of TDS is not my concern.

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[on the brink]

do you live in the USA? I am here now. Its a mess. Inflation is running way above that fake figure. everything is more expensive, and is getting higher.
Believe what you want.
I live half and half BA and USA, and the USA is changing faster, and worse.

And it is only beginning. Just wait until the tariffs hit.