Former president tells Glenn Beck he would have ‘no choice’ but to lock up opponents ‘because they’re doing it to us’

  • @kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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    81 year ago

    What we got was (depending on where you live) a 30% - 50% cost of living increase,

    Coat of living going up by ridiculous levels is a global issue, not an exclusively American problem, and certainly not caused exclusively and personally by the current American president.

    • @aesthelete@lemmy.world
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      51 year ago

      IMO COL increases were mainly driven by record inflation in housing due to COVID coinciding with record low interest rates. Then there was also the cartel setting the price of gas high to recoup their pandemic belt-tightening, legitimate and illegitimate supply chain issues, and corporate interests hiking prices in order to pad their profit margins as the government cheese shop was starting to close up.

      These conditions were somewhat similar no matter which country you live in, and played out in similar ways on a global scale.