US consumers remain unimpressed with this progress, however, because they remember what they were paying for things pre-pandemic. Used car prices are 34% higher, food prices are 26% higher and rent prices are 22% higher than in January 2020, according to our calculations using PCE data.
While these are some of the more extreme examples of recent price increases, the average basket of goods and services that most Americans buy in any given month is 17% more expensive than four years ago.
I’m so tired of repeatedly posting this but you fucknuggets just refuse to learn.
America has a ridiculous growth in the number of millionaires these last 10 years.
And nearly ALL of them are children from wealthy families.
They skew the median income bracket making it look like most Americans are making 65k+ a year.
This isn’t the case, and 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
And people like you are actively trying to hide this.