Incredibly frustrating to hear "educated" neoliberals talk about how "inflation is lower than anywhere else in the developed world" in response to people complaining about how high prices are. Those are fundamentally different things! Its day one, "EcOnOmIcS 101" stock versus flow variable stuff. The prices are too damn high! Saying prices are growing at a slower rate than elsewhere is a terrible retort to that complaint.

That CNN graph showing only 5 counties in the entire country where wage growth outpaced inflation needs to be spammed to all of these losers.

On NPR this morning, there was a story on Latino voters. The guest opens the spot saying, "the top issue for Hispanics was actually the economy" and "most said that they were worse off financially compared to 4 years ago." The guest and host then spend 5 minutes talking about how the problem with Harris campaign's outreach to Latino voters was that they used the terms Latinx and progresista.

Absolutely nothing will be learned by liberals.

it'll be interesting to see how the next decade develops. i predict an increasing rift between the political class and basic awareness of reality as they rely ever more heavily on metrics that demonstrate concretely how good the economy is under their own management, not even realizing that their own thumbs are on the scales. woe unto us all when some company starts offering to use "ai" to fill in sparse econometrics.

Well thank goodness it looks like they're finally realizing the error of their ways!

https://xcancel.com/whstancil/status/1854029871187452087

Will Stancil:

Yes: economic dissatisfaction ultimately reflects the domination of the information environment by the right wing (and antisocial sentiment more generally), rather than real economic conditions, which are better than most voters have ever lived through.

:yea: