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1971. The year Nixon took the dollar off gold. House: $25,200. Now: $410,000. Car: $3,560. Now: $48,000. Harvard: $2,600/yr. Now: $57,000/yr. Gas: $0.36/gal. Now: $2.88/gal. Average income went from $10,000 to $60,000. Everything got 8–22x more expensive. Wages only went …
So your answer is….. more oppression LMFAO pic.twitter.com/aQMP0HsNX9 — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) January 12, 2026
🚨NEWS: America's biggest meat processors have allegedly used a secretive data company to collude to hike food prices & suppress wages, according to lawsuit documents reviewed by The Lever. Ground beef prices have increased by over 400% as meat-industry wages …
Millennials are "pro-socialist" because they think our current system is capitalism, e.g. the Fed inflates away workers' wages to redistribute wealth to asset owners. pic.twitter.com/FNFeJmgXuf — Anthony Galli (@AnthonyGalli) December 3, 2025
After a record 25 consecutive months of negative real wage growth, wages have now outpaced reported inflation on a YoY basis for 29 straight months. This is a great sign for the American worker that hopefully continues. Video: https://t.co/rAbmeeqgFh pic.twitter.com/Ir5Cz7o6a1 …
Well no, they're foreign illegals taking American jobs to artificially lower wages. If they came here legally, they wouldn't have a problem. They also use state subsidies paid for by the very citizens they take jobs from. Any questions? https://t.co/3PxlMHuWEn …
Credit scores are collapsing faster than at any time since the Great Recession, and the warning lights are flashing across every corner of the economy. Millions are now falling behind on car loans, credit cards, and personal loans, revealing how …
Household savings collapsed from a 32% pandemic peak to near 3%, leaving consumption far more exposed to wages and credit. byu/MonetaryCommentary inEconomyCharts The U.S. personal saving rate hovered around 7% during the 2010-2020 period, as households maintained a steady buffer …
Rent vs Wage Growth Data: “Since 2000, housing costs have been rising faster than median household income. Inflation-adjusted rents have grown steadily, to more than 20 percent above their 2000 level. Inflation-adjusted prices for single-family homes have grown even faster… …
Fortune enfuego today. Immigrants worked for lower wages for many jobs that most Americans don’t want to do. If you need a dishwasher now it’s going to cost you. This is going to put a lot of pressure on wages …
The U.S. workforce is running on a debt IV drip: – 52% of Americans carry credit card debt with rates now in the high 20% range!!! – Half don’t even know their interest rate Of those who think they do, …
Housing is more broken than most admit. Cutting rates won’t fix it. Prices remain too high and wages too low to afford a home. Inventory shortages in key regions make matters worse. First-time buyers are pushing 40 years old on …
Trump said today there were 21 Million. How do we remove 20 million in just 3.5 yrs? — floridanow1 (@floridanow1) June 16, 2025
Loan Balance by Borrower Status in the BILLIONS. pic.twitter.com/c9Gp8NZpwj — Amanda Goodall (@thejobchick) June 14, 2025
Something deeper is happening beneath the noise of the stock market highs and soft landing headlines. The economy is shifting. Not in the way central bankers talk about and not in the way financial media likes to report. This is …
Japan wage shock: Real wages plunge to -2.1% YoY, the worst in two years, and a deflationary disaster for the BOJ which puts a final nail in any hiking plans. If anything, BOJ should restart NIRP and boost QE (but …
Corporate profits as a share of national income have increased to 15.7%, an all-time high. Compensation of employees as a share of national income is 62.1%, near an all-time low. Why has a larger share of national income accrued to …
NEW YORK (AP) — The ubiquitous food delivery app DoorDash will pay almost $17 million to settle claims that it unfairly used customer tips to subsidize the wages of its delivery workers in New York, rather than letting drivers keep …
Around 10,000 U.S. hotel workers have indeed gone on strike in multiple cities, including San Francisco, San Diego, Honolulu, Boston, Seattle, and Greenwich. The strike began after contract talks with major hotel operators like Marriott, Hilton, and Hyatt stalled. The …
via notayesmanseconomics: This summer was badged as being a time when we would see a change in something which has existed since the early 1990s. It has been a major theme of Japanese policy since the original plans of Abenomics …
Voters are “Angry” about the economy as wages fall behind, inflation re-accelerates, and debt and multiple jobs are the only way to make ends meet. Washington has given up trying to fix it, doubling down on inflationary spending, mandates, and …
Food-delivery apps have responded to cities’ new wage-increase requirements for gig workers by ratcheting up fees. Now, they are contending with frustrated consumers, plunging restaurant orders and an exodus of delivery drivers. Lawmakers in New York City, one of the …
Rents have been rising faster than wages across the United States. Between 2019 and 2023, nationwide rents increased by 30.4%, while wages during the same period rose by 20.2%. This trend has particularly affected large cities like Atlanta, Charlotte, Miami, Phoenix, and Tampa, …
Fast food prices have skyrocketed under the Biden administration, outpacing grocery bills and gas prices, according to Axios. Since before the pandemic, prices have surged by 31%, while average hourly earnings have only climbed 25%. It’s the cost of living …
Wages for the typical U.S. worker have surged since the pandemic, but for many Americans those gains are being gobbled up by rising rent. Rents jumped 30.4% nationwide between 2019 and 2023, while wages during that same period rose 20.2%, …
“Workers’ wages buy less and less. In fact, workers have lost purchasing power during the past half-century. Comparing prices to wages, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose more than six times from 1965 to 2011—while the minimum wage rose less …
CNBC expert: “illegal immigration is great for the US”, it “helps fight inflation” by lowering everyone’s wages CNBC expert: "illegal immigration is great for the US", it "helps fight inflation" by lowering everyone's wages — zerohedge (@zerohedge) March 15, 2024 …
Hundreds of flight attendants took to the picket lines Tuesday to push for better pay. The picket lines, which are expected to last one day, are made up of flight attendants from 24 airlines like Southwest, American and United. The …
https://twitter.com/GRomePow/status/1754733412274090244 https://t.co/VJVccx2GMx — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) February 6, 2024