The Economy

[MajorRewrite]

Wholesale price inflation (producer price index) soared in January.

Excluding food and energy prices, which bounce around from month to month, so-called core wholesale prices rose 0.8% from December and 3.6% from January 2025 — both higher than forecasters had expected.

 

[PersonalFavors]

Wholesale price inflation (producer price index) soared in January.

They rose < .05% and were due to an uptick in the wholesale price of services, led by higher profit margins for retailers and wholesalers.
Corporate greed. As inflation decreases and the cost of distribution decreases the cost of goods can come down without damaging the economy. They skim as much as they can from the middleman index they created here between retailers and wholesalers.

 

[MajorRewrite]

They rose < .05% and were due to an uptick in the wholesale price of services, led by higher profit margins for retailers and wholesalers.
Corporate greed. As inflation decreases and the cost of distribution decreases the cost of goods can come down without damaging the economy. They skim as much as they can from the middleman index they created here between retailers and wholesalers.

Your denial and misrepresentation of facts is weird and pathetic.

As stated, core wholesale prices rose 0.8%, which would be 9.6% annualized.

 

[heathrowinneo]

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/27/ppi-january-2026-.html

This might help and this may shed some light as well.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/27/ubs...res-what-has-the-investment-bank-worried.html

Plus, those enlightened readers may have seen the NYT article on the bloated tech heavy S&&P.

 

[AlexBailey]

Trumps illegal tariffs have double fucked American consumers.

First he taxed importers who passed the costs on to American consumers. Now that the tariffs were deemed illegal the importers are suing to get their money back, even though they passed those cost on.

How many importers are going to share their refunds with their customers? I’m guessing close to zero.

So Trump collected tariffs that raised costs to American consumers and now ~ $175b will be going back to businesses but not consumers.

So much winning!

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/26/trump-tariff-refunds-doj-court-deadline.html

 

[PersonalFavors]

Trumps illegal tariffs have double fucked American consumers.

First he taxed importers who passed the costs on to American consumers. Now that the tariffs were deemed illegal the importers are suing to get their money back, even though they passed those cost on.

How many importers are going to share their refunds with their customers? I’m guessing close to zero.

So Trump collected tariffs that raised costs to American consumers and now ~ $175b will be going back to businesses but not consumers.

So much winning!

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/26/trump-tariff-refunds-doj-court-deadline.html

So says you and the liberal spin media.
And no one is getting refunds. They will just tie up the courts.

 

[heathrowinneo]

Trumps illegal tariffs have double fucked American consumers.

First he taxed importers who passed the costs on to American consumers. Now that the tariffs were deemed illegal the importers are suing to get their money back, even though they passed those cost on.

How many importers are going to share their refunds with their customers? I’m guessing close to zero.

So Trump collected tariffs that raised costs to American consumers and now ~ $175b will be going back to businesses but not consumers.

So much winning!

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/26/trump-tariff-refunds-doj-court-deadline.html

The winning is a matter of perspective. Most of us got the shitty end of the stick while those in favor made their money. Tariffs hurt the average American and trying to say that he, trump, wants to possibly replace payroll taxes and with tariffs continues the injury to all of us. Winning? Not so much. Well said too BTW.

 

[Lazaran]

Now watch the markets.

The U.S. economy is in a precarious position with Trump’s tariff tax fiasco, immigration enforcement fiasco, etc, and the “all our eggs in one basket” tech heavy investment over the past year that has NOT yielded significant returns.

And the markets were overvalued to begin with…



We. Told. Them. So.

 

[Lazaran]

Trumps illegal tariffs have double fucked American consumers.

First he taxed importers who passed the costs on to American consumers. Now that the tariffs were deemed illegal the importers are suing to get their money back, even though they passed those cost on.

How many importers are going to share their refunds with their customers? I’m guessing close to zero.

So Trump collected tariffs that raised costs to American consumers and now ~ $175b will be going back to businesses but not consumers.

So much winning!

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/26/trump-tariff-refunds-doj-court-deadline.html

And then there is the poorly considered MASSIVE deregulation effort from DonOld & the MAGAt republicans that I’m sure will have no negative consequences in the future…





We. Told. Them. So.

 

[coati]

The MAGAts, and for that matter most of the Democrats in office, still do not recognize that democratic socialism is necessary to provide a BASELINE level of healthcare, nutrition, housing, and education if capitalism is to survive.

Right now, we have a system that transfers more and more wealth to the rich and powerful. Socialism for the rich.

 

[Iluv17]

Moar WINNING and even MOAR WINNING

 

[Lazaran]

The MAGAts, and for that matter most of the Democrats in office, still do not recognize that democratic socialism is necessary to provide a BASELINE level of healthcare, nutrition, housing, and education if capitalism is to survive.

Right now, we have a system that transfers more and more wealth to the rich and powerful. Socialism for the rich.

Democrats realize that an INCREMENTAL TRANSITION to a “BASELINE” social support architecture is the only workable method.

Accelerationists on the far right and the far left would disagree- in different ways and for different reasons…



We. Told. Then. So.

 

[briancamdudetenger2018]

i wonder if donnie j trump had the ecomomy part on his infamous 2026 state of the union speech written by a gordon gekko and a ivan bowski

 

[AlexBailey]

So says you and the liberal spin media.
And no one is getting refunds. They will just tie up the courts.

Oh really?

How exactly do you frame the situation?

 

[coati]

Democrats realize that an INCREMENTAL TRANSITION to a “BASELINE” social support architecture is the only workable method.

Accelerationists on the far right and the far left would disagree- in different ways and for different reasons…



We. Told. Then. So.

Democrats were wrong about that. For example, the half-assed health insurance act passed by Obama simply transfered more public funding to private health insurers. The end result is subsidizing corporate dividends and leaving many people without health insurance at all.

Quit screwing around and provide Medicare for anyone who needs it. Rich and middle class people can buy private insurance if they want to, but EVERYBODY deserves baseline health insurance.

Democrats outsourcing basic needs to corporate profiteers helped to set the stage for electing a con artist like the Pig. Bernie Sanders was a much better populist than the Pig -- Medicare for anyone who needs basic health insurance. Screw the corporate lobbyists and the elitists making excuses for those lobbyists.

 

[Lazaran]

Democrats were wrong about that. For example, the half-assed health insurance act passed by Obama simply transfered more public funding to private health insurers. The end result is subsidizing corporate dividends and leaving many people without health insurance at all.

The ACA did more than that ^…

Quit screwing around and provide Medicare for anyone who needs it. Rich and middle class people can buy private insurance if they want to, but EVERYBODY deserves baseline health insurance.

That ^ sounds good in theory, but I don’t really know how that would work out in reality. It would likely upend the entire private health insurance industry- with unknown consequences.

Democrats outsourcing basic needs to corporate profiteers helped to set the stage for electing a con artist like the Pig. Bernie Sanders was a much better populist than the Pig -- Medicare for anyone who needs basic health insurance. Screw the corporate lobbyists and the elitists making excuses for those lobbyists.

To be fair, if the far left accelerationists (Bernie Sanders, Susan Sarandon, etc) hadn’t sabotaged Hillary Clinton’s candidacy, and she had won the 2016 election, a Medicare for all option could possibly exist right now.

That ^ is what DonOld & the MAGAt republicans were warning would happen if Hillary was elected in 2016. And Hillary HAD attempted to establish a universal healthcare option once before…

Just sayin’…



We. Told. Them. So.

 

[heathrowinneo]

Now watch the markets.

The U.S. economy is in a precarious position with Trump’s tariff tax fiasco, immigration enforcement fiasco, etc, and the “all our eggs in one basket” tech heavy investment over the past year that has NOT yielded significant returns.

And the markets were overvalued to begin with…



We. Told. Them. So.

I'm more interested and concerned with the concentration of corporate assets/wealth in the marketplace in a few or limited companies. That has the makings of a bubble that will correct the markets usually with some extent of pain.

The S&P has a handful of companies with massive amounts of wealth. When they move up or down it is more enhanced than when assets are spread more evenly. Look at 2007, the dot com bubble, and even back to the 1930's. The names and companies may change in each period but the effect is the same: too heavy a concentration in too few companies.

 

[coati]

That ^ sounds good in theory, but I don’t really know how that would work out in reality. It would likely upend the entire private health insurance industry- with unknown consequences.

^^^wimpy Democrat talk.

Both parties have outsourced health insurance to corporate profiteering. One party did so in a wimpy way with the ACA, and the other party is doing it with much greater cruelty.

The bottom line is many Americans do not have access to basic health care, and private health insurance corporations are getting subsidized with public funding.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Moar WINNING and even MOAR WINNING

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Stocks are off to a losing start in 2026, and under-performed the rest of the world over the last year too.

US stocks are off to their worst start versus the global market since 1995

 

[Iluv17]

Oh you fucking dumbass! They are doing exactly what Trump wants them to do! HE CONTROLS Wallstreet 100%!

 

[MajorRewrite]

More bad news about job creation/elimination.

US employers cut a surprising 92,000 jobs last month as unemployment rate rises to 4.4%

The Labor Department reported Friday that hiring deteriorated from January, when companies, nonprofits and government agencies added a healthy 126,000 jobs. Economists had expected 60,000 new jobs in February.

Revisions also cut 69,000 jobs from December and January payrolls.

Downward revisions! Surely RightGuide and the mentally disabled one will scream about fake numbers.

Factories cut 12,000 jobs and have now lost jobs for 14 of the last 15 months.

Trump’s protectionist tariffs were supposed to cause a manufacturing boom.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Consumer spending, which accounts for the majority of GDP, is faltering.

Retail sales fell more than expected in January, biggest drop in eight months

Retail sales declined 0.2% in January from the prior month, the Commerce Department said Friday, the biggest decline since May. January’s reading came in below expectations of 0%, according to a poll of economists by data firm FactSet. The figures are adjusted for seasonal swings but not inflation.

Retail sales declined across most categories in January, falling the most at department stores (-6%), personal care shops (-3%) and gasoline stations (-2.9%).

 

[ll74]

Jobs

Oil prices

 

[PersonalFavors]

Spin it how you see it from cnn and msdnc or see what really happened.

JOBS REPORT | Foreign born workers have lost 519,000 jobs over last year, while native born workers have gained 128,000 jobs.
Federal employees now down by 330,000 or 11% since peak govt employment in October 2024.

 

[ll74]

Spin it how you see it from cnn and msdnc or see what really happened.

JOBS REPORT | Foreign born workers have lost 519,000 jobs over last year, while native born workers have gained 128,000 jobs.
Federal employees now down by 330,000 or 11% since peak govt employment in October 2024.

The economy has.lost 92,000 jobs.

You're the one spinning that