the rate of price growth has slowed substantially since hitting a high in 2022.
If the American economy is doing so good, how did Trump manage a clean sweep?
Right in that quote, the best thing they can say about our economy is not that it’s getting better, but that it’s not getting worse as quickly as it was two years ago.
Socialists of all types have been saying this for ages and explaining all the ways you could do it without succumbing to a deflationary spiral, but I’m sure libs will take this as evidence that Xi doesn’t understand econ 101 and that he’s ruining China.
my first thought was brainrot terminology, but after thinking about it for a bit I’m gonna go with “Gamergate” (level 3 please)
I broke 1500 in Star Fox 64 once and I’ve never been able to do it since.
They call that the Peter Principle, and there’s at least one Ig Nobel Prize winning study which found that it’s better to randomly promote people rather than promote based on job performance.
My experience mirrors yours until high school, which is when we were allowed to just stand up and walk out when we needed to. Kids who abused the privilege were dealt with on a case by case basis.
Surprised I haven’t heard Lisa! The humor is super dark so I wouldn’t recommend it to everyone, but it’s one of the best RPGs ever made.
Probably the floor of an airport. Everything was closed and the chairs weren’t an option, so I just picked a spot on the floor and used my bag as a pillow for about six hours before I got woken up by the morning cleaning people.
The traditional conception is that ghosts aren’t really sentient creatures, but a phenomenon that souls can get stuck in instead of going to the afterlife. There’s symbolism there - a ghost is an echo of a person, much like memories of them or the effects they had on the world. There’s also a bit of Christian moralizing - a “good” person doesn’t stick around because they are eager to join God in heaven, while a “bad” person clings to their earthly life and possessions even if they are only capably of doing so in a greatly diminished state.
The modern conception of a ghost where it’s a fully realized person who can just kinda go through walls is an anthropomorphized and secular version of the ghosts that were invented by the Victorians.
holy shit. So a big part of the ceasefire deal is for the Lebanese Army to move into southern Lebanon and take over from Hezbollah - is Israel’s goal to get the Lebanese Army to move into range of their artillery so that they can shoot them and escalate the war further?
THE INK ISN’T EVEN DRY
That is an effect, it also increases the relative value of debts which isn’t great, but the negative impacts of those is less than the potential positive impact of reducing the relative cost of living. Really what you’ve got to focus on if you’re a government trying to manage deflation is a) capital flight and b) wage reduction, because the biggest negatives are seen if investment gets pulled out of the economy and the positives aren’t realized if people’s wages don’t stay the same.