It'd be interesting to track US prices for 50-100 items from January 1 2025 to December 31 2025; like smartphones, US made cars, imported cars, laptops, US made beer, imported beer, general groceries, gasoline and diesel 🧐
At the same time also tracking US unemployment and the stock exchange.
I mean, we all know these numbers will look great! It'll probably be the best numbers we've ever seen. Because. You know ... 😑
#usa #us #uspolitics #tariffs #tradewar #trump #uslife #prices #consumer
Lunch today with a friend who deliberately left Hong Kong before the British handed it over, to escape Chinese authoritarianism by building a life in the US--who is now going, WTF happened to the US?
And on the other side of the table, a friend who was raised in the Quiverfull movement, who thought she'd escaped the Project 2025 ways of thinking she was raised on, only to see it become national policy.
Whoof. We have a microcosmic community of trust among the three of us (and our sweeties), at least. But damn.
Can't remember who posted this, & the review is 2 years old, but I now want to read the book.
"The single greatest obstacle to gender equality in the U.S. is the 'time bind' created by what she calls 'greedy work': jobs that demand huge quantities of their employees’ time, energy, and humanity..."
https://newrepublic.com/article/164263/gender-pay-gap-starts-home-career-family-claudia-goldin
I was today years old when I learned that modern insurers like #NewYorkLife, #Aetna, and #USLife made their early fortunes in the American slave trade by insuring slavers if their "property" expired.
#shame
